Lexicon

Proper noun

Cordel literature (from the Portuguese term, literatura de cordel, literally “string literature”, Portuguese pronunciation: [koʁˈdɛw]) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs. They are produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in Brazil, mainly in the Northeast. They are so named because they are hung from strings to display them to potential customers, and the word for rope in Portuguese is corda, from which the term cordel is derived. (Definition via Wikipedia)

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adjective

1. Resembling leather

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verb

crep·​i·​tate | \ ˈkre-pə-ˌtāt

to make a crackling sound, crackle

Also: crepitaculum

• noun An ancient instrument resembling the castanets.
• noun In zoology, a rattle or rattling-organ, as that on the tail of a rattlesnake.
• noun A talc-like spot at the base of the upper wings of certain Locustidæ.

ADJECTIVE

(in British English) of or relating to hair growth

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verb

1. To open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen, or other contents, as the ripe capsules or pods of some plants.
2. To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.
3. To gape; to open by dehiscence.

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n.

1. a girl or woman who behaves in a sexually provocative and permissive way without yielding her virginity

Also called: demi-virgin

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adj.

1. authentic and typical

adv.

1. authentically and typically

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