Incunable

//ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of incunabulum. alt-of, alternative

    "Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers."

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"Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers."

Etymology

From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).

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