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11pimpmobile — /pimp moh beel , meuh /, n. Slang. a large, expensive, and ostentatious or vulgarly ornate automobile, typically one painted in bright colors and fitted out with a lavish or overelaborate interior. [1970 75, Amer.; PIMP + MOBILE] * * * …
12Remembering the Jamestown Colony After 400 Years — ▪ 2008 Introduction by David A. Price In 2007 the first permanent English settlement in North America, the Jamestown Colony, had its 400th anniversary. On May 14, 1607, three ships landed at this spot on the James River, not far from present day… …
13Ennodius, Magnus Felix — ▪ Italian bishop and writer born 473/4, Arelate, Gaul died 521, Ticinum, Pavia Latin poet, prose writer, rhetorician, and bishop, some of whose prose works are valuable sources for historians of his period. A member of the important… …
14Jamestown Colony — ▪ English colony, North America Introduction first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European… …
15nonfictional prose — Introduction any literary work that is based mainly on fact, even though it may contain fictional elements. Examples are the essay and biography. Defining nonfictional prose literature is an immensely challenging task. This type of… …
16Outside (David Bowie album) — Outside Studio album by David Bowie Released 26 September 1995  …
17Johnsonian — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, affected, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high flowing, high… …
18affected — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, afflicted, agonized, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, attacked, awkward, bastard, bedizened, big sounding, bogus, brummagem, canting, chichi,… …
19artificial — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, apocryphal, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, concocted, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, cute, distorted, dressed up, dummy, elaborate,… …
20baroque — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, arabesque, bizarre, brain born, busy, chichi, deformed, dream built, elaborate, elegant, embellished, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, fancy born, fancy built, fancy woven, fantasque, fantastic, fine, flamboyant,… …
