Cc: Creche

Definition

1. A representation of the Nativity.
2. A Day Nursery.

Cocktail Party Banter

Literary Context

Indeed I once knew a lady who half-humorously suggested that the cave was a creche, in which the babies were put to be specially safe, and that the coloured animals were drawn on the walls to amuse them

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Pp: Penumbra

Salvador Dali, Sewing Machine with Umbrella
Oil on Canvas
Courtesy of the Stratton Foundation

Definition

A partial shadow between regions.
The grayish outer spot of a region.
"It is because the critics are not detched they do not see this detachment, it is because they are not looking at things in a dry light that they cannot see the difference between black and white."#
#Chesterton, G. The Everlasting Man. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993. 

Cocktail Party Banter

When you are in the midst of things it is often to be at a penumbra of things.

Literary Context

Slowly the penumbra, the shadow of a shadow, crept on over the bright surface, and as it crept I heard deep gasps of fear rising from the multitude around.

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context

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