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Lucerne N Alfalfa Rocky Mountains Pharaonic Phallic Prehistoric

Word lucerne
Definition n. Alfalfa.
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; oatmeal hills, flecked with green round oaks; a last rufous mountain with a rich rug of lucerne at its foot.
Source Lolita, II.2, p. 165

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