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OUTLIER Word Stories · How I knew it

BUCENTAURS

“I encountered the word “bucentaur” in a book about painters in Venice. I looked it up because it seemed cool that it combined ideas with boats with ideas of mythology, also, that it was a word chosen to associate with the ruling families of the time.”

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