NP: "dolor"

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Of interest to readers of Nabokov, relating more to _Lolita_ than _Pale Fire_, though:


dolor (DO-luhr), also dolour, noun

   Sorrow; grief.

[From Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor (pain),
from dolere (to feel pain). A related word is dol, the unit of pain.]

  "Leads her to a lowly room.

   Which she makes a chapel of.
   Where she genuflects to love.
   All the prayerbooks in her eyes
   Open soft as sacrifice
   Or the dolour of a dove.
   Tender candles ray by ray
   Warm and gratify the gray."
   From the poem "The Anniad"    Book:  Annie Allen, 1949.

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