Rasque

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Rasque

n.
a moment you instantly wish you could take back, feeling a pulse of dread right after crossing the point of no return—a blurted confession, a hurled insult, a final decision you’d been waffling over for months— wanting to take just one step backward in time, reverting to the way things used to be, in the halcyon days of just a minute ago.

From rue, to regret + bourrasque, a tempest. Pronounced “rask.”

Aoyaoia

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Semaphorism

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Aubadoir

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Harmonoia

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Rialtoscuro

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