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slime

(n): any thick, viscous matter
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9 months ago mollusque said:

He dreamed of mellowing his pigments as the Old Masters had done--with honey, fig juice, poppy oil, and the slime of pink snails.
--Vladimir Nabakov, 1957, Pnin, p. 67

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