full_metal_ox: A gold Chinese Metal Ox zodiac charm. (Default)
full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] 1word1day 2023-10-08 04:15 pm (UTC)

Let’s not forget my own first encounter with the word, in a context eminently befitting Spooky Season:

The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.

—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842).

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