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Colours as emblems

This is an opening line in Christa Wolf's novel Till Eulenspiegel. Something about it haunted me, two colours flying as...

Wishing you the real McCoy, not the alloy.

'An alloy invented by Christopher Pinchbeck, looking like gold and used to...

'Chryselephantine' means made of, or adorned with, gold and ivory, as in this figurine. Only just came across this word...

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