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Notre-Dame de Paris

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Notre-Dame de Paris

Baby shoes

Some mentions of infant loss (in fiction) in this one, just a heads-up. If you want to give that a pass, scroll down to below the picture. SOULIER, n. This is a French word for “shoe.” It’s not the first French word for “shoe” this newsletter has discussed: I

French literature

Messes and romance novels

DISHEVEL(L)ED, adj. Some Englishes spell this word with one L and some with two, so I’m trying to have it both ways, as usual. An adjective meaning messy or disordered, especially regarding someone’s personal appearance, this word popped up in my recent reading of Notre-Dame de

The OG Cathedral

The OG Cathedral

OGEE, n., adj. and OGIVE, n., adj. I first heard the word “ogee” while taking a class about Gothic art and architecture in college, and I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I couldn’t parse it at all. I remember thinking, “Surely my extremely upper-crust white British art

On the skids

SKID, v., n. I originally looked up this word because after reading Aster Glenn Gray’s Tramps and Vagabonds (discussed in the reviews below), I was wondering about the expression “skid row.” But it turns out “skid” itself was more exciting than predicted. I primarily think of it as a