Aubadoir

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Aubadoir

n.
the otherworldly atmosphere just before 5 a.m., when the bleary melodrama of an extremely late night becomes awkwardly conflated with the industrious fluorescence of a very early morning.

French aubade, an ode to the morning + abattoir, slaughterhouse. Pronounced “oh-bah-dwahr.”

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Insoucism

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Povism

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The Kinder Surprise

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Trumspringa

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Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top