Lacuna
Archives: Word to the Wise
A “lacuna” (luh-KYOO-nuh) – from the Latin for “hollow” – is a gap or missing part.
Example (as used by Moses Isegawa in Abyssinian Chronicles): “The exodus of wives, relatives, friends and hangers-on had left a big howling lacuna which wrapped the homestead in webs of glorious nostalgia.”
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