Saturday, April 28, 2007

Today's English

Unguent: A salve for soothing or healing; an ointment.

''In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours''
-T.S. Eliot. from The Waste Land

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