Speak, Memory Glossary

by Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory Glossary

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Mock-Pastoral

Parodies of pastoral works

Grandiloquent

Epic, pompous

Apologia

Vindication, plea

Posterior

Hindquarters

Prodigious

Large, enormous

Frilled

Pleated, collected together

Blotchy

Smudged, patchy

Regally

Like an emperor

Ramification

Outcome, result, consequences

Vantage

Stance, angle

Beetling

Overhanging

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