- Palimpsestic : (n.) | 1. a parchment or other surface in which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing. 2. something bearing visible traces of an earlier form.
- Bricoleur : (n.) | is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts, to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process. The term is borrowed from the French word bricolage, from the verb bricoler, the core meaning in French being, "fiddle, tinker" and, by extension, "to make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand (regardless of their original purpose)". In contemporary French the word is the equivalent of the English do it yourself, and is seen on large shed retail outlets throughout France. A person who engages in bricolage is a bricoleur.
- Objets Trouvés : (n.) | The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th century.
- Lexical : (adj.) | 1. of or relating to items of vocabulary in a language 2. Of or relating to lexicography or a lexicon.
- Obliquely : (adj.) | 1. a.) Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.b. Mathematics Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular. 2. Botany Having sides of unequal length or form 3. Anatomy Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal 5. Not direct in descent; collateral. 6. Grammar Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative. | n. 1. An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscles 2. Nautical The act of changing course by less than 90°. | adv. 1. At an angle of 45°.
- Imaginaries : (n.) | 1. An imaginary, or social imaginary is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society.
- Bijoux : (n.) 1. a small dainty usually ornamental piece of delicate workmanship 2. something delicate, elegant, or highly prized
- Fecund : (adj.) 1. Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile 2. (of a woman or women) Capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth
- Putatively : (adj.) 1. commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed
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- Concomitantly (adj.) Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. | (n.) One that occurs or exists concurrently with another
- Praxis : (n.) | 1. Practice, as distinguished from theory 2. Accepted practice or custom
- Subterraneous (adj.) | being or operating under the surface of the earth 2. lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
- Flaneurs : The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", "loafer"—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll".
- Ductile : (adj.) 1. capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals;malleable. 2. capable of being drawn out into wire or threads, as gold. 3. able to undergo change of form without breaking.
- Peripatetic : (adj.) traveling from place to place, esp. working or based in various places for relatively short periods. | (n.) A person who travels from place to place
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