Constantine wire
n.— «She would have probably written something involving splintered wodden utensils and using constantine wire for floss afterwards.» —“Re: What About Fae? WAS Re: I love Vampires” by Johnny Mayall Usenet: alt.vampyres Apr. 30, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
In 1971, when a new public library opened in Troy, Michigan, famous authors and artists were invited to write letters to the city’s youngest readers, extolling the many benefits of libraries. One of the loveliest was from E.B. White, author of...