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Word: Vanitas
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Latin, literally ‘vanity, futility’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈvanɪtɑːs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.
Short Definition:still-life painting of 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as reminder of their inevitability
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