Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Lisolia

n.
the satisfaction of things worn down by time—broken-in baseball mitts, the shiny snout of a lucky bronze pig, or footprints ground deep into floorboards by generations of kneeling monks.

Italian liso, worn down, threadbare + oliato, oiled. Pronounced “lih-soh-lee-uh.”

Symptomania

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Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Moledro

Cover image for the Moledro word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Trumspringa

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