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Damn! Pass the dictionary!

What a great work of great words. Thank you. Joe

first i thought you was writting in a diffrent lanuguage than english then that joe dude said pass the dictionary and im like this dude must be smart so i dont know what it all means but someone will

"lissom trollops" -- cool. (Doesn't "lissome" have an "e" at the end?)

I should have been more aware that people would have trouble with the language, my apologies, I spend too much time in this dark room (12 hours a day) I can give you a run down.

Maisonnette-A small two floor house

jalousie-a window with glass louvers

atavistic- a throwback

arriere pensee- self doubt

concupiscence-sexual desire

Merkins- a low woman, unkempt

odalisque-concubine

xerothermic-hot and dry

amour propre-self respect

insouciant-nonchalant

miasma-unfriendly place

Meretricuous- garish, overly showy

anisotropic- varying in each direction

remunerated-paid

I had a feeling this was about hookers, but I didn't want to say anything just in case I was wrong. You can fancy up the words, but the intent rings clear. Interesting piece, by the way. You clearly have a masterful vocabulary at your fingertips.

As far as I know, 'merkin' is actually a pubic wig, popular with medieval women. They shaved all their body hair on a regular basis to prevent lice, hence wigs for above and below.

it would be interesting to see you try it a gain in no larger than four letter words............................

it also means mop. Its a derogatory term--somewhat, I didn't know how else to say low woman without the insult of whore, nor the seriousness, but I sought to express that they are low, in a more objective manner, not immoral, or by my standards "whorish" some of the other are indeed different, low, but it a far worse way.

It seems we're both correct, Derrick:

merkin - "female pudenda," 1535, apparently a variant of malkin (q.v.) in its sense of "mop." Meaning "artificial vagina or 'counterfeit hair for a woman's privy parts' " is attested from 1617. According to "The Oxford Companion to the Body," the custom of wearing merkins dates from c.1450, was associated with prostitutes, and was to disguise either pubic hair shaved off to exterminate body lice or evidence of venereal disease.
"This put a strange Whim in his Head; which was, to get the hairy circle of [a prostitute's] Merkin .... This he dry'd well, and comb'd out, and then return'd to the Cardinall, telling him, he had brought St. Peter's Beard." [Alexander Smith, "A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the most notorious Highwaymen," 1714]