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Word: reptillian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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Usage:

...unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: New Translation of Jean Cocteau Novel | 5/23/1957 | See Source »

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