Words encountered whilst reading Mann's "Der Zauberberg." Some common (pectoral) but used in an odd or interesting way. There are several words as well that do not presently appear in the Visual Thesaurus, amongst them bienseance, phthisical, and diapositive. These are from the Lowe-Porter translation.
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