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.”