Ten more words, phrases, or names used by A.S. Byatt in Possession that I had to look up the definition of (third in a series):
- ambages (winding ways or indirect proceedings)
- telluric (of or relating to Earth)
- de haut en bas (of or with condescension; lit. "from top to bottom")
- Cixous (Helene Cixous, an Algerian feminist literary scholar)
- oolite (a rock consisting of small round grains usually of calcium carbonate cemented together)
- araignée (a spinous spider crab)
- fosse (a ditch or moat)
- susurration (a whispering sound)
- Ankou (a ghost that guards cemetries)
- hypostasisation (the attribution of real identity to a concept)