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.”

Licotic

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Gaudia Civis

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Hubilance

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Trumspringa

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Halfwise

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The Meantime

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