I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. My too great application to the study of them is the best excuse I can give for the little progress I have made in your charming language. You know I understand all the inferior animal tongues. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation. We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J.YOU may remember, my dear friend, that when we lately spent that happy day in the delightful garden and sweet society of the Moulin Joly, I stopped a little in one of our walks, and stayed some time behind the company. Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. "I felt it in the little square that lay in front of the theatre, in which, in two-hours' time, the bare boughs of the chestnut-trees would gleam with a metallic lustre as the lighted gas-lamps showed up every detail of their structure and before the ticket attendants, whose selection, advancement and ultimate fate depended upon the great artist-for she alone held power in this administration at the head of which ephemeral and purely nominal managers followed one after the other in an obscure succession-who took our tickets without even glancing at us, so preoccupied were they in seeing that all Mme Berma's instructions had been duly transmitted to the new members of the staff, that it was clearly understood that the hired applause must never sound for her, that the windows must all be kept open so long as she was not on stage and every door closed tight the moment she appeared, that a bowl of hot water must be concealed somewhere close to her to make the dust settle." Knitandpurl commented on the word ephemeral The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog 2010 How, then, with that kind of history, do you think the government will fare attempting to prevent the flow of something so ephemeral is “electronic bits” around the world? Lorraine Devon Wilke: You're Not Keeping Up With The Kardashians Either Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011 When your entire brand is built on the temporary, fleeting, and inevitably obsolete currency of youthful physical beauty, sexual allure, and cultural status, the word " ephemeral" comes to mind. noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form.adjective geology, of a body of water Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.adjective biology Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.adjective Lasting for a short period of time.noun Something which lasts for a short period of time.The larvæ are aquatic - called also day fly and May fly.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. adjective (Zoöl.) one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time.adjective Short-lived existing or continuing for a short time only.adjective Beginning and ending in a day existing only, or no longer than, a day diurnal.noun Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.noun Anything which lasts or lives but for a day or for a very short time, as certain insects.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.Synonyms Transient, fleeting, evanescent.Hence Existing or continuing for a very short time only short-lived transitory.In zoology, lasting but one day ephemeric ephemerous.noun Something, especially a plant, that is ephemeral.adjective Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth.adjective Lasting for a markedly brief time.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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