Knots + Baubles

Hoopey's Visual Dictionary

AVARICE:

1. Excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain.

In other words.... don't be a Scrooge!

Hoopey's Visual Dictionary

JOCUND:

1. Marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness.

2. Sprightly and lighthearted in disposition, character, or quality.

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Words I Learned Today

I like picking up words. I keep a little pink notebook in my bag all the time to write down words & definitions I don't know. I find it's a very useful tool - much more conducive to learning than, say, a word-o-the-day email where there's no reason to retain the information. Today I was at the met and found three words I really don't think I've ever seen before:

ODALISQUE:

1. A female slave or concubine in a harem
2. A conventionalized painting of a reclining odalisque

Roger Fenton "Reclining Odalisque" 1858  (I saw this image at the Met today in a beautiful photographic exhibit which inspired the inquiry.)

 

SYLVAN:

1. One who lives in the woods
2. Of or characteristics of the woods or forrest
3. Living or found in the woods
4. Wooded

All paintings are background paintings for Sleeping Beauty by Eyvind Earle.  A couple of these were nabbed off the Animation Backgrounds site by Rob Richards who works beautifully at restoring these backgrounds to their fullest potential.

HIRSUTE:

1. Hairy, shaggy, bristly
2. Having a large amount of hair
3. Describes a plant or plant part covered with long stiff hairs