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putrescent 1. becoming putrid; rotting 2. characterized by or undergoing putrefaction How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Afterward, they go to the adjacent market to buy oil and herbs to prepare a balm to anoint a body in putrescence. But when found in the Public Forum they are not just ink smears all over the page but are unadulterated putrescence. But here the classic profiles of water- and calla-lilies, decaying roots and all, are made eerily fragile and translucent: the organic is frozen into delicate, calligraphic messages of a sublimity that always threatens to slip into the horrible, into rot and putrescence. |
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