Prink - a strange word from Plutarch
Posted by: Robert Sandberg in strange words, tags: Aubrey Beardsley, Plutarch, Quentin Crisp, strange wordsPrink
This is a word I would have expected to find in something written by Gore Vidal, Aubrey Beardsley, or Quentin Crisp. Instead I found it while reading Plutarch’s Consolation to His Wife (in translation of course) in The Art of the Personal Essay (Ed. Phillip Lopate).
Prink. It sounds like what it means: to dress carefully in a finicky or showy manner.




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