FASHION Magazine
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SNP’s word of the day: Demotic
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett Word: Demotic
Meaning: Of/relating to ordinary, plain-spoken, colloquial language; vernacular.
Usage: “[Smith’s] verses were resolutely demotic, even as she played with the imagery that Rimbaud drew from the Bible and Eliphas Lévi and fairy tales and illustrated geographies, and she deployed this imagery even as she devoted poems to Edie Sedgwick, Marianne Faithfull, and Anita Pallenberg.”
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SNP’s word of the day: Marginalia
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett Word: Marginalia
Meaning: Scribbles or doodles in the margins of printed matter—although the definition given by writer Katrina Onstad below, which more loosely implies extraneous surface detail in other art forms, is interesting too.