I use an expiscate (search) tool on my home page which keeps tracks of the words people search for -- one such last week was "aggrawator", for which I find nothing (except for hints that it may be a Cockney term); but.

I found aggerwator on a couple of word lists, defined as 'locks of hair that frame the face'. then I searched Google[books] and found this, from Ringing the Changes: An Autobiography By Mazo De la Roche:
I called her Aggerwator after a character in Dickens, so named by her cockney husband, because she so greatly aggravated him. But her proper name was Wanda.

and finally, via Amazon Books, from Gaslight and Daylight by George A. Sala:
His head has a cranium, an os frontis, a cerebellum, and an occiput, although it be covered by a fur cap, and decorated with Newgate 'aggerwators,' instead of a shovel hat or a velvet cap with pearls and strawberry leaves.

-joe (uffda) friday

Here's an eponymous painting.

But it's not very, er... illustrative.

thanks ASp; I've email'd the artist.

-joe (eye of the beholden) friday

(eye of the beholden)

<snortle>

But it's quite a nice painting. Hope the artist will give an answer. He may have a liking for mystery words. The painting could go without any title just as well.

I got a response from Kris Butters (of the gallery) saying:


she then apparently searched online and came up with:
aggerwator n. - locks of hair that frame the face. agglomerate v.
from the Luciferous Logolepsy.

I hadn't noticed the verb form previously, which adds a new twist(!).

-joe (twisted theories) friday

Which shows that even though the painting is abstract and would need no title at all, the artist thinks it needs extra importance by adding this rare word.
The 'mystification practice' in Art I'm not too fond of.

Look on the bright side, BranShea: if he hadn't practised mystification, we wouldn't have learnt this interesting word.

I hadn't noticed the verb form previously, which adds a new twist(!).


Sorry for picking a nit, but I think "agglomerate" is just the next entry of the list, unrelated to the word under discussion.

hmmph.

-joe (in the beginning was the word) friday

I understand how you mean this, so , yes, I'll look on the bright side without hmmmmpfing.