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Brilliantine: scented oil used on men's hair to make it look glossy; shiny dress fabric made from cotton and mohair or cotton and worsted.
Durance vile: (archaic, idiomatic) A long prison sentence.
Gorgonzola: an Italian blue cheese made from unskimmed cow's milk, believed to have been created in the 9th century.
Hectograph: an apparatus for copying documents by the use of a gelatin plate that receives an impression of the master copy.
Painter's colic: severe abdominal pain and constipation caused by lead poisoning. It is also known as lead colic, Devonshire colic, Poitou colic, or saturnine colic.
Pantechnicon: (British) a large van for transporting furniture.
Petechiae: pinpoint, round spots that form on the skin. They are caused by bleeding, which makes the spots look red, brown or purple.
Philatelist: one who collects or studies stamps.
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