incunable

/ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers."

From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).

incunables (plural)

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How do you pronounce incunable?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/.

What does incunable mean?

Alternative form of incunabulum.

Where does incunable come from?

It is traced to French.

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