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is anyone familiar with this word? google comes up empty. it sounds like it's an architectural feature of some kind hi, Sparteye!; i found it in a novel, in this context: "He stood, fumbling with a cigarette, blinking and pale... viewing the looming gables and mad cheminations of Pawtaw with unconcealed mistrust"
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I think it refers to a gothic proliferation of chimneys on the roof line..?
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proliferation of chimneys
Or chimeneys.
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>>Chimneys
>Or chimeneys.
I've even heard the malapropism chimleys before too :-)
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chimleys
and also chimbleys!
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chimleys
and also chimbleys!
Perfectly normal examples of a standard linguistic process (I forget the name*); the same one that produced the Spanish hombre from the Latin homine.
*Would this be more credible if I knew the name? ICLIU.
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a standard linguistic process...Mumbling?
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otoh, cheminate (which spelling did the original have?) argggh i messed up the subject line (it's now been edited). the original was indeed cheminations; i suspect my error was because i, too, thought first of chimneys. tsuwm checked the OED and said it wasn't listed.... odd.
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Mumbling?
No, no, that's not it. Something more high-flautin'.
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