New Words I Learned Today (and refrences)

Oct 05, 2009 20:27

Saccadic

Odalisque = A female slave in an Ottoman seraglio (concubine house). She served as a chambermaid to the Sultan's concubines. She was in service with the potential to become a concubine for the Sultan.

Later odalisque was used to refer to a mistress, concubine or paramour of a wealthy man.

During the 19th century, odalisques became common fantasy figures in the artistic movement known as Orientalism, being featured in many erotic paintings from that era.

Orthogonal = when two vectors form a right angel

pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars

encyst= to form or become enclosed in a cyst

homiletic = of or relating to a homily, preachy

Ithyphallic = phallic

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