| Word | lanugo |
|---|---|
| Definition | n. Fine, soft hair found on fetuses and newborns. |
| Sentence | [of the Rocky Mountains] Pharaonic, phallic, ‘too prehistoric for words’ (blasé Lo); buttes of black lava; early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines; end-of-the-summer mountains, all hunched up, their heavy Egyptian limbs folder under folds of tawny moth-eaten plush… |
| Source | Lolita, II.2, p. 165 |
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