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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:26:20 -0500
From: George Shimanovich <gshiman@optonline.net>
> Why did VN choose such rare terms--anide, lunette, kix?
Sound like words one may like to play in scrabble. - George
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
Behalf Of Donald B. Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:20 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Fw: more on lunette
Jansy sent me the difinitions of "lunette" given by COD. When I
translated TT, I was
satisfied with the 3rd definition in Webster 2 (as Jansy cited, "the
hole in a guillotine for the victim's neck") and did not think about its
meaning any more. I confess I did not know the other dictionaries did
not give that meaning. I have just found Webster 3 does not have it
either! Why did VN choose such rare terms--anide, lunette, kix? Another
definition of lunette in Webster 2, "a watch crystal flattened in the
center" reminds me of "The entire solar system is but a reflection in
the crystal of my (or your) wrist watch" in the last letter from Mr. R.
It sounds close to the kix too. But I have no idea about the meaning of
the crystal connection.
Akiko
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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
To: "Akiko Nakata" <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: Fw: more on lunette
> Concise Oxford Dictionary:
> 1. an arched aperture in a domed ceiling to admit light;
> 2. a crescent-shaped (meniscus? JM ) or semicircular space or alcove
which
> contains a painting, statue ( not a Pauline Anide, I $B!- (Bm
sure...);
> 3. a watch-glass of flattened shape;
> 4. a ring through which a hook is placed to attach a vehicle to the
vehicle
> towing it;
> 5. a temporary fortification with two faces forming a salient angle,
and
two
> flanks;
> 6. RC Church a holder for the consecrated host in a monstrance.
> French diminutive of lune.
> In the Oxford Dic. there is no entry for the "guillotine", as in the
former
> mailing with: " the hole in the guillotine for the victim $B!- (Bs
neck" by
James
> L. Taylor in the Websters! ( I wonder why )
>
>
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