Pentimento (plural pentimenti) - ghost like traces of image(s) showing underneath a painting. Usually after many years of wearing away a faint image of the original painted images starts to show beneath a finished painting.
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. … I have myself observed that in states of extreme fatigue, when I am really dangerously physically
The only way I'm going to believe in God is if heaven has roller coasters and ice cream.
- Quote from my daughter age 10 (while discussing what Jehovah Witnesse's believe)
Vamping - a person or business that uses people in a misleading way, ultimately leaving the person or business in a transformed, "walking dead," shell of their former self.
Crenellated - low and high parts of a wall usually used as a defensive battlement. The word can also be used to describe landscape that looks like a battlement.
Dirty Rotter (Rotter) - An unsavory fellow, sleazebag, slimeball, or my personal favorite definition upchuck bucket. -- in homage to my grandma, for this was the harshest word she ever used.
prudeophile - is a person who is moderately to seriously offended by old or antiquated jokes. For more on this new word please click here prudeophile meaning
busker - to entertain, play music or perform in a public place usually for money. Busking is a very old term from the 1850's meaning "seeking fame and fortune.'
It's kind of funny how it went from seeking fame and fortune
je ne sais quoi - an obvious French saying that means, a quality of someone who has a special charm or unique magnetism. An elusive quality that is very attractive and pleasing.
