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Anthropophagi – a cannibal

Castigate – to criticize or reprimand harshly, especially to correct behavior

Congreve – English playwright (1670-1729), wrote high-brow sexual comedies of manners, coined the phrase "kiss and tell" "Music soothes the savage breast" and "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

Ecdysiastical – of or related to strippe rs, coined in 1940s

Embarcadero – a pier, wharf or landing place

Hermetic – of or pertaining to occult science, especially alchemy

Palanquin – typically used in Eastern countries, a box shaped litter attached to poles carried on the shoulders on several men

Patois – regional form of a dialect, rural or provincial speech pattern seen as different from the standard

Robert Lowell – Bostonian Poet (1927-1977), suffered from manic depression, poems were characterized as confessional

Sartorial - of or pertaining to a tailor or clothing

Somnambulist – sleep walker

Tribadism – lesbianism