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.”

Jouska

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Wildred

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Slipfast

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Trumspringa

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Merrenness

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La Cuna

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Idlewild

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Aubadoir

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Fitzcarraldo

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Elsewise

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Chrysalism

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Volander

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Scabulous

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Vulture Shock

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The Til

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Foreclearing

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Kairosclerosis

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Anecdoche

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Attriage

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The Standard Blues

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Idlewild

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Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Thrapt

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Wellium

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