Word: operculum
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...What A T & T will eventually make of this high-camp, post-Pop irony performing as status monumentalism is anyone's guess, but that is what Johnson has produced, and the fact is emphasized by the top of the building-the now famous "grandfather clock" pediment with its round operculum, through which the heating system will issue clouds of steam on cold days. This is yet another historicist joke, alluding to one of Johnson's favorites from the past-Boullée, whose vast panoramas of pyramids, masonry globes and smoking crematoria are among the singular documents of the early Industrial...
What the sampans go for is the trochus. The trochus or top shell is a marine rhipidoglossate mollusk with a multispiral operculum. Its shell is a simple cone and snail-wise it carries it on its back as it moves slowly along in shallow water. The shell is good for buttons, cheaper than pearl shell...
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