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And doesn't look offhand or accidental either, because it appears again on page 114, like establishing precedent or something.

Thanks dilettante. Now I have a brand new entry in my mind dictionary, because from how it's been used, that word is not even exclusively poetic let alone exotic, though arguably it swims very sparingly in the main currents of literature, an elusive time skipping thing that makes itself known and dives under radar like a kind of linguistic seam it is.