lazaret - a small compartment below the deck in the after end of a vessel, used for stores

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian recuperates in a room converted to a makeshift hospital ward as the war rages nearby.

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carnifex - executioner, specifically the public executioner in Ancient Rome; literally "butcher" in Latin

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from both Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series and Harley Stroh's adventure module Jewels of the Carnifex.

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sough - (of the wind in trees, the sea, etc.) make a moaning, whistling, or rushing sound

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of Autarch, book four of the Book of the New Sun. Severian becomes lost in memory in the woods, the wind in trees reminding him of the cypresses in the necropolis during his childhood.

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corsique - A type of European pole weapon, characterised by a three-lobe blade. The head features a long spike and two shorter and stronger lateral blades. Said to have originated in Corsica.

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch, book four of The Book of the New Sun. Written there as "korseke." Definition and image from Wikipedia.

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study for a cacogen
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Imagining a YA reader wanting to cancel Severian for being a gaslighter because he describes that astronaut as a golden knight.

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