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Here's one for Ron... :)
pupilability
nonce-wd.
? Pupillary nature.
In quot. with punning allusion to the pupils of the eyes.
1761 Sterne Tr. Shandy iv. i, What can he mean by the lambent pupilability of slow, low, dry chat, five notes below the natural tone+unless+the voice+forces the eyes to approach not only within six inches of each other—but to look into the pupils?
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