For your edification:
- testaceous ("having a shell," or "having the reddish brown color of bricks or baked clay.")
- titivate ("to make smarter; to spruce up; to decorate.")
- vomitorium ("a passageway to the rows of seats in a theater.")
- cockshut ("evening" or "twilight" — apparently from the notion of night being a time birds are placed in barns.)
- turdiform ("like a thrush, or any of the songbirds of the family Turdidae.")
- albedo (either "the fraction of light reflected from a body" or "the white, spongy inner lining of a citrus fruit rind.")
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