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noun (incunabula)
- A book, single sheet, or image that was printed " not handwritten " before the year 1501 in Europe.
- 2004, Luisa Graves (translator), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (author), The Shadow of the Wind,
- : Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an : his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best.
Etymology: From (term, incunabula, incÅnÄbula, cradle, origin), from (term, in-, lang=la) + (term, cunabula, cÅnÄbula, cradle).
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