I’ve been falling back on word posts fairly often recently because they’re easy to churn out and I’m lazy- but when you’ve been hitting a lot of museums it’s also the case that there are a lot of fun and exciting words coming to your attention.
Like stevedore.
- stele: a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument
- pyx: is a small round container used to carry the consecrated host to the sick or those otherwise unable to come to a church in order to receive Holy Communion
- stevedore: a person employed at a dock to load and unload ships.
- gussy: as in, to ‘gussy up’
- bodhisattva: a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings
- catafalque: a decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state
- capricious
- chalice
- parure: a set of jewels intended to be worn together
- rife
- phalanx
- cuivrer: to copperplate
- chameau: camel
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guêpe: wasp
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acéphale: headless
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bouffon: buffoon
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épingle: pin (n)
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sciure: sawdust
- saule: willow
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