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19 c.

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some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
aesthetic tea  ·  alburnum  ·  ambuscade  ·  argand  ·  autochthones  ·  batrachian  ·  bittern  ·  blinkard  ·  bream  ·  buttonwood  ·  cachinnation  ·  cacoethes  ·  calenture  ·  caoutchouc  ·  cessile  ·  cisalpine  ·  cisatlantic  ·  copula  ·  coruscation  ·  dandiacal  ·  dandiprat  ·  deal bookcase  ·  defalcation  ·  desiderate  ·  diligence  ·  dithyrambic  ·  dowlas  ·  elucubrate  ·  equinoctial  ·  espalier  ·  excoriations  ·  fichu  ·  fluviatile  ·  footpad  ·  geognosy  ·  grand-climacteric  ·  guimp  ·  guipure  ·  gukguk  ·  hirundine  ·  hustings  ·  hyla  ·  inosculation  ·  jaconet  ·  kerseymere  ·  laches  ·  lappet  ·  latitudinarian  ·  levantine  ·  looby  ·  lucubration  ·  lunette  ·  maenadic  ·  magnetic sleep  ·  maieutic  ·  mansuetude  ·  margrave  ·  marguerite  ·  marl  ·  megrim  ·  melilot  ·  mercer  ·  meretricious  ·  mulct  ·  mullein  ·  obloquy  ·  ormolu  ·  otaheitean  ·  parterre  ·  parure  ·  pelerine  ·  peptic  ·  peruke  ·  pisciculture  ·  plectrum  ·  plethoric  ·  plumpers  ·  proem  ·  prunella  ·  purling  ·  rechercy  ·  riancy  ·  rive  ·  rubicund  ·  salubrity  ·  sapient  ·  satanic poetry  ·  sciatica  ·  serbonian  ·  shallop  ·  skyey  ·  succedaneum  ·  superfetation  ·  termagant  ·  trenchant  ·  tumulus  ·  velocipede  ·  vulpine  ·  weir  ·  wiredrawn  ·