Plata Rasa

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Plata Rasa

n.
the lulling sound of a running dishwasher, whose steady maternal shushing somehow puts you completely at peace with not having circumnavigated anything solo.

Latin plata, plate + rasa, blank or scraped clean. Pronounced “pla-tuh rah-suh.”

Ameneurosis

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Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Scabulous

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Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Pax Latrina

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Attriage

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