Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful: Words for Writers, Poets & Dreamers

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Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful is part dictionary, part portable, selective, and curated encyclopedia. This book offers a window into the breadth and depth of human experience and imagination, showcasing words with unique histories and meaning, or beauty of sound or appearance; others are esoteric and deep – or simply fascinatingly strange.

Within are words and beautiful names such as:

brontomantic, Denisovian, anacampserote, wildering, aprique, oneirogenic, circumundulate, chiromantic, tristisonous, umbratilous, obvolvent, Thulian pink, Thistlegorm, therocephalians, Fata Morgana Land, spumiferous, Panslavonian, and Muromian.

Other categories of words, names, and terms are:

Placenames (Pillars of Hercules, Arabia Felix, Doon Edin, Mare Tenebrosum & Riphean Mountains);

Zoology (quill pig, pink fairy armadillo & frantling);

Astronomy (Eddington luminosity, Venusian, Silurian hypothesis, Jovian trojans & Kreutz sungrazers);

Geopolitics (Perfidious Albion & Baltoscandia);

History (Sahelian kingdoms, sunlit uplands & Groom of the Stool);

Geometry (Penrose stairs & Villarceau circles);

Anatomy (brain sand & frantling);

Archeology (Oldenburg Horn& Nebra sky disc);

Plus nautical, poetic, and literary terms like:

brave west winds & naufragous;person from Porlock & the cavalier poets;the Lost Generation &Erewhonian.
Also select slang words, such as: tactical chunder, snoutfair, molly wop, ghostshipping & grundle.

And interesting phrases like:bring owls to Athens;Et in Arcadia ego; dolce far niente;andup the wooden hills to bedfordshire.

This is the third dictionary from Robin Devoe. The first – Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely – is a collection of the 3500 “coolest” words in the English language. The second – Epic English Words – includes the best 10% or so of that 3500, and also interesting names and terms from diverse scientific, artistic, and literary fields. So moonglade, nemorous & brontide; and so too Devonian, Muspelheim, Shambhala & Avalon are included in Epic English Words. This book – Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful – is similar to Epic English Words except it includes almost all new entries. Each volume stands alone and if you like one, you will probably like all three.

– Robin Devoe, Vale de Lune, Alaska

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CLLTW2QY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (October 23, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 191 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8865151234
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.48 x 8 inches