Elizabeth Bishop: Selected Prose Glossary

By Tasha Roy · Edited by Patrick Kennedy · Last reviewed August 28, 2021

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Written by Tasha Roy

Crotchety

Petulant, sulky, fretful

Undulation

smooth surge, whirl

Reproachful

With criticism, disparaging

Felicity

Bliss, rapture

Piazza

Public market in Italy

Florid

Reddish, coloured, blowsy, glowy

Flamboyant

Exuberant, vivacious

Arbour

Summer house, aclove

Bulbous

Swelling, rotund

Tremor

Convulsion, juddering

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