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* '''heliotrope:''' a flowering plant associated in FW with [[Issy|Issy's]] [[The_Twenty-Eight|Twenty-Eight]] schoolfriends ([[Image:Ellipse.PNG]])
 
* '''heliotrope:''' a flowering plant associated in FW with [[Issy|Issy's]] [[The_Twenty-Eight|Twenty-Eight]] schoolfriends ([[Image:Ellipse.PNG]])
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* '''misanthrope''': a person who hates or distrusts mankind/humanity.
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*'''trope:''' a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; cliche if it becomes overused

Latest revision as of 05:45, 17 June 2019

  • mistletoe → sacred to the Celtic Druids → Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 65
  • Ulysses 553.24: "Irish missile troops" → i.e. Irish infantry armed with rifles who fought for the British in the Boer War in South Africa
  • misanthrope: a person who hates or distrusts mankind/humanity.
  • trope: a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; cliche if it becomes overused