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Epigraph
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example Sentences
- Each starts from an epigraph and then meditates on each of the substantive words therein.
- Those words might stand as one epigraph for his provocative and deeply absorbing new book.
- The verse spoke for itself but its epigraph was equally forthcoming.
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Word Origin & History
epigraph
1624, from Gk. epigraphe "an inscription," from epigraphein "to write on," from epi- "on" + graphein "write." Sense of "motto; short, pithy sentence at the head of a book or chapter" first recorded in Eng. 1844.
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