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.”

Exulansis

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Wildred

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La Cuna

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Volander

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The Kick Drop

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Kairosclerosis

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Aubadoir

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Scabulous

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Harmonoia

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Elsewise

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The Til

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Chrysalism

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Ameneurosis

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Zielschmerz

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Ghough

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Mahpiohanzia

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Liberosis

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Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Mcfeely

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Hubilance

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Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Redesis

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Maugry

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Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Anthrodynia

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