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Monday Links from the Festive Bench vol. CCCLXV

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    #11
    Bonus. A new word from the Virus, Coal, Seed link:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inspissated

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      #12
      Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
      Bonus. A new word from the Virus, Coal, Seed link:

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inspissated

      Definitely applies to me following Christmas overindulgence.

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        #13
        Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
        Bonus. A new word from the Virus, Coal, Seed link:

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inspissated

        IIRC I first encountered it in Robert Graves' memoir Goodbye to All That, quoting Siegfried Sassoon describing a close summer's day in London to his tutor at Cambridge as having been "Oleaginous, but not altogether inspissated"

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