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Friends: a colleague of mine wants to find a word to describe a collection of stories. I've thought of "web" and "tapestry"; any other suggestions out there?
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My sweet paulb:
Date: Tue Feb 8 00:04:32 EST 2000
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--omnibus
X-Bonus: Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. -Lisa Alther
omnibus (OM-ni-bus) noun
1. A long motor vehicle for passengers; a bus.
2. A printed anthology of the works of one author or of writings
on related subjects.
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Date: Thu Feb 10 00:04:27 EST 2000
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--florilegium
X-Bonus: As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
florilegium (flor-uh-LEE-jee-uhm, FLOR-) noun, plural florilegia
A collection of literary pieces; anthology.
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Perhaps something like: Tales of the South Pacific
The Decameron
A Thousand and One Nights
A Cornucopia
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jackie's definitions touched on the more common 'anthology'; also, treasury, compilation, analects(?), and, (my favorite!) chrestomathy.
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Were they the definitive stories, their collective might be referred to as a "canon."
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I like "home made" versions like the wonderful "A Child's Garden of Verses" by RLS.
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Thanks to you all and, especially, Jo. In my late-night post, I should have said that she was looking for 'colourful' or distinctly different words and 'garden' is just such an example.
It'll be a few days before I catch up with her again (she's a fast one!), so keep the ideas coming please.
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If you are looking for a "colourful" beneric term, it must depend to some extent on what sort of stories they are, I suppose. But these suggestions might spark off a train of something!
A spiel of stories
A tailof .. - if you wish to be whimsical - if you wish at the same time to be abscure, the a concatenation of ..
a whisper of ..
a kneepad of .. (as in "at my mother's ..)
thence a hassock of ..
How about a shake of tales ?
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A seasoning of stories
Gurgles and gasps
Luminescence of Literary License
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