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* '''brow:''' eyebrow (on [[HCE|HCE's]] head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth]]) | * '''brow:''' eyebrow (on [[HCE|HCE's]] head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth]]) | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:21, 5 July 2012
- regginbrew → regginbrow
- Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie; When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld"
- Regenbogen: (German) rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow
- Genesis 9:12-16: the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world
- reggia: (Italian) palace
- regina: (Latin) queen
- Regin: a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him
- brau: (German) brew
- blau: (German) blue → L/R split
