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Phalanstery
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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phalanstery
1846, name for one of the socialistic communities of c.1,800 people, living together as family, proposed as the basic unit of society in the system of Fr. social scientist François-Marie-Charles Fourier (1772-1837), from Fr. phalanstère, coined by Fourier from phalange, properly "phalanx"
EXPAND+ ending after monastère "monastery."
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