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deliquescent

 (adj): (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
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3 months ago knitandpurl said:

"Even in Bergotte's books, all those Chinese puzzles of form, all those subtleties of a deliquescent mandarin seem to me to be quite futile."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 62 of the Modern Library paperback edition

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