Word: pouffamatus
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...when he was only 26, and shows an amazing early technical mastery. By the end of that year, Ensor had ranged in motif from a fine-line portrait of the Swedish botanist Frise to a haggard, almost Hogarthian satire on historical painting in the grand manner, entitled Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouff, Celebrated Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela. In it, the learned doctors peer into the royal chamber pot for omens...
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