Lambent
by ETR (08/23/2008)
Word to the Wise: Lambent
“Lambent” (LAM-bunt) - from the Latin for “lick” - means brilliantly playful, dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject.
Example (as used by Mark Costello in a New York Times review of Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst): “Dorst knowingly evokes the Gatsbyite lambency of local yuppie culture.”
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