Lexicon

n. 

1. the imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture, especially in the 18th century [as modifier] hand-painted chinoiserie wallpaper.
2. chinoiserie objects or decorations: a piece of chinoiserie | one room has red velvet and chinoiseries.

[Bad News — Edward St. Aubyn]

noun (archaic)

1. Surgeon

[The Tempest – William Shakespeare]

(originally encountered as chorically)

adjective

• of, relating to, or being in the style of a chorus and especially a Greek chorus

[A Room with a View — E. M. Forster]

verb 

1. Join closely together

[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]

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)

[“The Author in Truth,” from Coming to Writing and Other Essays — Hélène Cixous]

adjective

1. Resembling leather

[James Nye, in conversation]

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

[Constellations: Reflections from Life — Sinéad Gleeson]