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.”

Echthesia

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Exulansis

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Wytai

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Hobsmacked

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Foreclearing

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Looseleft

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