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Debussy's "Pavane" is an eloquent, exquisite work to hear played at a funeral or memorial service, especially the arrangement for viola.
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So, from what you wrote about the idolatrous practices continuing in the villages, are we to understand that they didn't take place in the cities? Sounds fishy to me...
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Palestra (3 syl.). Either the act of wrestling, etc., or the place in which the Grecian youths practised
athletic exercises. (Greek, pale, wrestling.)
Palestrina or Pelestrina. An island nearly south of Venice, noted for its glass-houses.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, called “The Prince of Music.” (1529-1594.)
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Palimpsest A parchment on which the original writing has been effaced, and something else has been
written. (Greek, palin, again; psao, I rub or efface.) When parchment was not supplied in sufficient
quantities, the monks and others used to wash or rub out the writing in a parchment and use it again. As
they did not wash or rub it out entirely, many works have been recovered by modern ingenuity. Thus
Cicero's De Republica has been restored; it was partially erased to make room for a commentary of St.
Augustine on the Psalms. Of course St. Augustine's commentary was first copied, then erased from the
parchment, and the original MS. of Cicero made its appearance.
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Palestra: Pale wrestling? How odd. Did they wrestle till they died? Did they keep the wrestlers out of the sun? I don't get it, Dr. Bill.
Have you noticed I'm trying to keep up with you here?
"P" for Pest regards,
Wordwind
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Was the palimpsest over Cicero the entire "Republic?" No one must have thought much of it--haha!--if the entire thing was written over!
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Palliate (3 syl.) means simply to cloak. (Latin, pallium, a cloak.)
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Palmer A pilgrim privileged to carry a palm-staff: In Fosbroke's British Monachism we read that “certain
prayers and psalms being said over the pilgrims, as they lay prostrate before the altar, they were sprinkled
with holy water, and received a consecrated palm-staff. Palmers differed from pilgrims in this respect: a
pilgrim made his pilgrimage and returned to public or private life; but a palmer spent all his days in visiting
holy shrines, and lived on charity.
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Pamphlet said to be from Pamphila, a Greek lady, whose chief work is a commonplace book of
anecdotes, epitomes, notes, etc. Dr. Johnson suggests par-un-filet (held “by a thread”)- i.e. stitched, but
not bound; another derivation is paginae filatae (pages tacked together). It was anciently written
panfletus, pamflete, and by Caxton paunflet.
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