- trans. To deck or dress out, especially in a tawdry manner or with vulgar finery.
Bedizenv.[OED1] WW06-01
Cadastraladj.[OED1] WW06-02
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Of, pertaining to, or according to a cadastre; having reference to the extent, value, and ownership of landed property (strictly, as a basis of distributing taxation.)
What could be seen from the satellites above as urbanisation was therefore also something like the spread of the cadastral fabric that serves as the literal foundation on which capitalist production takes place. Rather than simply urban construction, then, the process was a simultaneously ecological and sociotechnical transformation in which all plots of land were cut into non-overlapping parcels with their use rights and resources assigned owners and the plots themselves given market values. —Phil Neel, Hellworld, pg. 44-45
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Cadastral Survey
- Strictly, a survey of lands for the purposes of a cadastre.
- Loosely, a survey on a scale sufficiently large to show accurately the extent and measurement of every field and other plot of land.
Callipygianadj.[OED1] WW06-03
- Of, pertaining to, or having well-shaped or finely developed buttocks. From Venus Callipyge, a famous statue of Venus. And I mean, just look at the statue.
Cucurbitaceousn.[W13] WW06-04
- (Botany) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
Endorheicadj. WW06-05
- (Geology) A term for a region where no or very little surface drainage reaches the ocean Julia A. Jackson, Glossary of Geology, Fourth Edition, 1997. ; a basin or lake whose drainage is characterized by evaporation, such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile.
Filigree1n.[W13] WW06-06
- Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
Filigree2adj.[W13] WW06-07
- Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree.
- fig. Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
Nacreousn.[OED1] WW06-08
- Consisting of or resembling nacre in substance.
- Exhibiting the iridescent hues of nacre.