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| | E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | cryptograph: Despite early forms of "cryptography" and "cryptographer" this root word is ascribed solely to Poe's "Gold-Bug" by the OED as first, with the wrong date (1849). |
 | | decora (Poe's nonce word for niceties or plural of "decorum"), H:2.116, "Assignation," 1835: the decora of what is technically called keeping; also, H:4.253, "Masque," 1842: He disregarded the decora of mere fashion; also, H:15.87, Literati, 1846: heedless of the ordinary decora of composition; also, H:13.129, review, 1846: the most justifiable decora of composition. |
 | | This is Poe's loan-word from the French, used as a nonce English hoax-word for leech (see Pollin, Discoveries in Poe, pp. |
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