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Negra espalda del tiempo by Javier Marías

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Aesculapian

bosky

mews (singular)

lutefisk (Norwegian?)

Rayuela by Julio Cortázar

faisandées (French)

Tatigkeit (German)

félonesse (French)

ex officio (Latin?)

pissotiere (French?)

pis (needs Spanish)

acolchado (needs noun sense)

acurrucar

bobalina

callo (needs Spanish)

cicuta (needs Spanish)

falleba

grupa (needs Spanish)

A Void by Georges Perec

ablation

allobarbital

blackfish

boston (no entry missing)

in toto

dominus vobiscum (or robiscum?)

antico rosato

au fait

octant (nonce word to replace sextant without using "e"?)

soi-disant

ab ovo

aconita

bon vivant

tuna fish (used in a British English context)

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

campylobacter (disease?)

case history

chicken (a small lobster)

crusher (a lobster's larger claw)

cull (a lobster with a missing claw)

cutter (a lobster's smaller claw)

daiquiri

dander (see also dust, fluff ...)

delphinium (flower?)

endive (food plant?)

flame out (when a jet engine runs out of fuel)

flight recorder

four-o’clock (flower? plant?)

gill bailer (lobster anatomy)

hands-free

highball

hollyhock (flower? plant?)

hydrangea (flower? plant?)

jet (old type of plastic? no it's a form of coal)

jumbo (large lobster)

nutpick

out-of-doors

peonies (flower? plant?)

poly-silk

presoak

rayon (needs English)

rebar

résumé

saltcellar

salvia (flower? plant?)

seafood fork

sericin (consituent of silk?)

shigella (disease)

snapdragon (flower? plant?)

soufflé (acute here but other diacritics avoided)

speakerphone

squab (type of game bird)

styptic pencil

swimmeret (lobster anatomy)

bard (verb)

facade (no cedilla here but acute used in other words)

Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco

aesthetics (not the US spelling Brits might expect a US edition to use)

joie de vivre (French used in English)

kolossal (German?)

Mannerist

medieval (the US spelling Brits might expect a US edition to use)

pulchrum (Latin)

Bauhütte (German)

kalòn (Greek)

kalokagathìa (Greek)

kàllos (Greek)

systematise (-ise ending in an American edition)

Dorian mode

opusculum (needs English)

primitism

Lydian mode

par excellence

sfumatura

colour (proof we're dealing with British orthography)

focussed (double s?)

haecceitas (Latin)

Schöpfertung (German)

Scotist

cavil Template:pos v

innatism

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

parting (hair)

bob (money)

clink (jail)

cove (person)

Greria (plant)

Ourai (plant)

pot (attempt to shoot)

quid (money)

topknot (type of bird)

antigonon (not antignon)

table d'hôte

Pantaleón y las visitadoras by Mario Vargas Llosa

charapa m

cura m

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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Hvis en reisende en vinternatt by Italo Calvino

Cent’anni di solitudine by Gabriel García Márquez

Le démon by Hubert Selby Jr.

Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

jones (see p14: Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk)

bolero (clothing)

guiche (includes def.; this sense not in Wiktionary)

mule (type of shoe)

pussy strip (includes definition)

Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec

AF (missing sense: opposed to metric)

BSP (used in descriptions of tools such as spanners and sockets)

burn-baited (something like slash and burn?)

calvary (lowercase, can be plural, a kind of religious knickknack?)

cornelian (older spelling of carnelian)

cretonne

Dasogale fontoynante

hit parade (seems old fashioned now)

Monachus tropicalus

mortise

nest egg

novelette

octobass a string instrument related to the double bass requiring two musicians to play

oilcan (single word variant)

a pink (not the colour, perhaps a flower?)

polka-dot (hyphenated variant)

swearword (single word variant)

Troides allotte

unicum (plural unica)

zucchetto (needs English)

Coco weddelliana

copper (horse-drawn vehicle?)

harkis

OAS

Ragusa -- former name of Dubrovnik

rebab

rivière (needs English)

mezuzah

sine die

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino translated by William Weaver

brand-new Template:pos a

brocade

burgeon Template:pos vi

mid-air Template:pos n

scales (singular)

serpentine Template:pos n

Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard? by Georges Perec

in camera

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

apple of somebody's eye

frisson

'pech' stove

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

divers — alternate spelling of diverse

purposed Template:pos v

quoth

resiliency

rove — past participle of ?

White Fang by Jack London

porte-cochière

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

hind (missing noun sense)

meet (missing adjective sense)

spill (missing noun sense)

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

contra – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 306

fruitcake – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 262

old school – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 296

slam-dunk – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 303

Zürich – A Prayer for Owen Meany →ISBN, page 305

Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

apretujar(se)

aspa f -- sail; blade (of a fan)

bando m

barrida f

cucaña f

culata f

haz m

humanizar(se)

inermes m plural

pavorreal -- alternative spelling of pavo real?

pilotes plural

requisa f

suspicaz Template:pos a

torbellino m

trompada Template:pos n

vislumbrar

zanja f

The History of the Conquest of Mexico

by William H. Prescott

Being 150 years old and on an exotic topic, it has quite a few rare words, senses, and uses. It even has some interesting Spanish and Nahuatl.

anaglyphs Template:pos n
aright Template:pos vt or Template:pos adv - better check again.
wampum belt Template:pos n, wampum Template:pos n
aloe = agave = maguey - book says these are synonyms but from different source languages.
damps Template:pos n - as a plural noun.
obloquy Template:pos n
thorough-bred - as a hyphenated compound.
Hindostan Template:pos n - another alt. spelling for Hindustan / Hindoostan, now India.
peruke Template:pos n
month - do we have a sense for speaking about months of various lengths in exotic cultures?
week - do we have a sense for speaking about weeks of various lengths in exotic cultures?
intercalation Template:pos n, intercalated
Gregorian
inappreciable
tropical year Template:pos n
civil time Template:pos n
solar time Template:pos n
cumbrous
solar calendar Template:pos n
nowise
necromancy Template:pos n
compact Template:pos n
tardily Template:pos adv
divinar
Chapoltepec - obsolete spelling of Chapultepec?
presage Template:pos n
genii Template:pos n - irregular plural of genie?
augury Template:pos n
hearthstone Template:pos n
chaplets Template:pos n - used several times, sometimes along with garland.
ablations Template:pos n
his lordship
thither
codices - irregular plural of codex.
munificent
born at Mexico - rather than the usual modern born in Mexico.
antiquary
credulity Template:pos n
eulogiums Template:pos n
raiment Template:pos n
Indian corn Template:pos n - older synonym for maize and corn when the primary meaning of the latter was not restricted to this specific grain. Also synonyms of sweetcorn / sweet corn?
improvident
equinoctal Template:pos a
coronals Template:pos n
stuffs Template:pos n - used a couple of times so far in the plural!
Tasco - obs. spelling of Taxco?
silicious
portraiture
animadversion footnote 68
"animals of draught" - rather than draught animals?
lackered - alt. spelling of laquered?
humming-bird - hyphenated
whither
grandee Template:pos n
an hereditary - is h pronounced or is this an example of the "an also before h" rule?
preferment
refractory footnote 72
tyro footnote 72
fulness - single l
tranquillity - double l
traditionary - not in Collins or Encarta
ewers
paneayrized footnote 73 - shoul be panegyrized?
Panamá - accent even in English
deglutition footnote 74
usages - used in plural several times which seems rare these days
encomium
preceptor
making away with - seems archaic, is in Encarta
Tlascala - obs. spelling of Tlaxcala?
misrule
judicature
censorial
of some moment - do we cover this old sense?
minstrelsy
fadeth - archaic inflection
shalt - archaic inflection
hast - archaic inflection
ere - archaic / poetical
to-day - archaic or obsolete spelling
to-morrow - archaic or obsolete spelling
numerous household - do we cover this old sense with a singular noun?
to hold converse - noun sense
brilliancy
freemen - irregular plural of old word
allurements
cuia - Spanish: obs. spelling of cuya?
noontide - attributive noun
embowering Template:pos a
coeval
Phœnicia - with oe ligature
blood royal - not in Collins or Encarta - is it a set phrase or just an old/special use of an adjective following a noun?
Tlascalans - obs. spelling of Tlaxcalans?
circumstantiality
laws full as severe - full as an adverb
woodman
chaffering
mendicity - Collins has it - related to mendicant - not a mispelling of mendacity
but was not blessed with issue - do we cover this old sense?
io - Spanish: obs. spelling of yo?
á - Spanish: obs. spelling of a?
sallies
arrogated
fué - Spanish: obs. spelling of fue?
adieu - used several times in English context
mas - Spanish: obs. spelling of más?
sugeto - Spanish: obs. spelling of sujeto?
intrepidity
Fleming - noun related to Flemish
archiepiscopal see - as a set phrase or just an adjective and a noun?
usurpations
cupidity
Columbus launched his bold bark - alt. spelling of barque
caravel
to win the meed of glory - probably homophone of mead
descried
Caribbee Islands - some old name for some part of the Caribbean?
sugar-cane - hyphenated
dye-woods - set phrase or just a noun used attributively?
remonstrances
Hieronymite - used a couple of times - not in Collins or Encarta
Fernandina - old name for Cuba
Juana - old name for Cuba
Page 106 lists 3 possible etymologies for Yucatan / Yucatán
Campeachy - old spelling of Campeche?
Rio de Vanderas - is vandera an obs. spelling of bandera?
cacique
doubling a boisterous headland - do we cover this sense?
captious
importunities
auidaban - obs. spelling of ayudaban?
i - obs. spelling of y?
bade
dismasted
topmast
so many blanks to a prize - what sense is this and do we cover it?
scutcheons
jocund
requital
durance
Spanish: alguacil
gibbet
Spanish: ó - obs. spelling of o?
Spanish: dixo - obs. spelling of dijo?
Spanish: estava - obs. spelling of estaba?
intrusted, intrust - isn't the usual modern spelling entrusted, entrust?
importunate
toilsome
redound
Spanish: hazer - obs. spelling of hacer?
misconstructions
Spanish: avia - obs. spelling of había?
morrow
made sale - wouldn't "made sail" be correct?
the Havana - I know it's La Habana in Spanish, but it looks like English also used to use a definite article but since it was not capitalised, it was not an actual part of the name...
soldiery
ungenerous
impracticability
tranquillize - double l
brigantine
crossbowmen
arquebusiers
falconets
after-ages
countrymen
carry to a glorious issue - another old sense?
Spanish: é - obs. spelling of y?
Spanish: deve - obs. spelling of debe?
unlettered
Mohometanism
after-time
lineaments
profanation
continence
salutary
hawk-bells
brigantines
habiliments
mangrove-trees
billets
arquebuses
breastwork
buckler
gainsay
vaunting
chivalric
potentate
fain
Lady-day
musketry
war-instruments
war-horse
Pompey - obs. spelling of Pompeii, or the Roman military leader?
heathenish
proselytism
lee
pirogue
obsequies - what is the singular?
mart - didn't know this was so old
malignity
innoxious
wrought gold - does this mean wrought iron is not idiomatic, or that this also is?
casque
impolitic
unintermitting
exactions
enginery
Spanish: prophetas
Spanish: avian
Spanish: rriquezas
Spanish: avia
Spanish: çiertas
Spanish: dias
Spanish: vivia
Spanish: tristeça
pine-apples
divers - alt. spelling or error for diverse?
rivalled - double l
weighed 50 marks - do we cover this unit of weight?
Spanish: artifiçiadas
roadstead
vespers
orisons
importunities
countermand
magistracy
high-mettled
usurpation
indissolubly
weal - in the probable set phase for weal or for woe
diadem
intendancy (footnote)
bivouacked
variegated convolvuli
sweet-swelling buds - typo for sweet-smelling?
Spanish: mui
Spanish: ansí
Spanish: apaçibles
Spanish: oy
exactions
enormities
vaunt
concert Template:pos v
market-place
conciliate
expiation
peremptorily
evinced
panegyrist
affrighted
overawe
wonted
Spanish: antepassados
Spanish: auian
besought
venality
alguacil
Spanish: dejasse
cordage
Spanish: dixéron
Spanish: savia
Spanish: haçer
Spanish: rrespondióles
Spanish: estavan
Spanish: al cavo
Spanish: ayna
able-bodied
Spanish: dexado
curacy
overleaped
temporizing
peculation
obloquy
chimerical
narrow-minded
goodwill - closed compound
misdeeds
rapine
enfranchisement
bishopric
preferment
expostulations
disapprobation
vituperation
over-colouring
unwarrantable
crimination
table-land - arch. spell. of tableland
half-a-dozen - hyphenated compound
Spanish: nauìos - navios
Spanish: coraçones
Spanish: vna - una
Spanish: ordenasse
Spanish: estaua - estaba
Nature - often / usually capitalized at least when personified
declivities
a ragged defile - defile is used as noun and verb in an old sense
coffer-like rock
scoriæ
wayworn
organum
Spanish: calaueras
Spanish: estauan - estaban
Spanish: cient mill - cien mil ?
ground-swell
fructify
amity
indited
van - an old sense probably related to vanguard
Spanish: aora
Spanish: viessemos
a half broad
Cyclopean
suzerain
sierra
intermarriages
co-operate
rode at the head of his body of horse - singular form used in plural or uncountable or invariant manner
Spanish: puescueço
peasantry
tuna syn. Indian fig
Spanish: rompiessemos
Spanish: lleuassen
Spanish: lanças
Spanish: lançadas
Spanish: parassen
Spanish: echassen
battle-cry
a narrow glen or defile
war-cry
serried
panoplies
manœuvres
panic-struck - rather than modern panick-stricken
inroad
two leagues' distance
pertinacious
lion-hearted
betide
inspiriting
intrenchments - rather than modern en-
arquebusiers, crossbowmen
unintermitted - modern is unintermitting no?
meadow-ground
phosporic
feather-mail
cuirasses
leathern - modern is just leather
surcoat
minstrelsy
atabal
bowshot
arrowy
war-shriek
war-party
discomfiture
night-attack
vedettes
mid-air
evidences - modern is uncountable with no plural besides "pieces of evidence" etc
lenity
soever - related to whatsoever, whosoever, etc?
Spanish: fuerças
vapouring
suing for peace - do we cover this sense?
slunk
exercrations
caparisons
volumes of incense - do we cover this sense?
the air was rent
unprovided
dark-green
infidelity - related to infidel?
polytheistic
abjure