Little Fires Everywhere Glossary

Little Fires Everywhere Glossary

Combinatorics

Area of mathematics calculating the number of ways a particular event can occur

Curlicues

Decorative curls or twists in calligraphy

Dashikis

Brightly coloured tunics

Duplex

A building divided into two apartments

de rigueur

The height of fashion

Ebonics

A form of English sometimes used by black Americans

efficiency (an)

A one-room apartment

Fembot

A female robot

Hindenburg

German passenger airship

Itinerant

Travelling from place to place

Nomadic

Roaming from place to place

Palomino

A pale-coloured horse

Philanthropy

The desire to improve the welfare of others

RN

Registered Nurse (abbreviation)

Salient

Most important

“sketchy”

disreputable

Tithe

Traditional tax given to the Church

Trompe l’oeil

Artwork that creates a visual illusion

Utopia

An imagined place where everything is perfect

Vagaries

Unpredictable changes in situation or behaviour

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