quiet (noun)
121Brigadoon — noun A place that seems magically transient. A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted …
122Almira — noun in quiet use mainly in the 18th and 19th century. Almira was the only daughter of a worthy merchant in the city of London …
123Sabrina — noun a) A legendary Celtic princess who gave her name to the river Severn. b) in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954) …
124quietism — noun a) A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation. b) A state of passive quietness …
125Aurora — noun a) Roman goddess of the dawn. b) in quiet but regular use since the 19th century …
126crickets — noun Absolute silence; no communication. Derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet. May be used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases. Since then, Ive received no response.… …
127Ivy — noun ; popular in the UK in the beginning of the 20th century. Little Ivys life, as the months pass on, is a quiet, uneventful one, but exceedingly happy withal: You have a strange name, my dear, the old lady says one day, and the child answers… …
128morning sleep — noun The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern. Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. The… …
