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Vinony

incunable

noun

  1. book produced prior to 1501, at the dawn of printing in Europe
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/

noun

Etymology: From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).

  1. Alternative form of incunabulum.

    “Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.”