Culture
Desco da parto
A birth tray or birth salver (Italian: desco da parto) was an important symbolic gift on the occasion of a…
Dance of Death
The Dance of Death (French: Danse Macabre), is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the…
Cut-up Technique
The cut-up technique (French: découpé) is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to…
Character sketch
The word character sketch means a rough-and-ready rendering or thumbnail portrayal of an individual, capturing, in brief, that person's physical…
Castrum doloris
Castle of Grief (Latin: Castrum doloris) is a name for the structure and decorations sheltering or accompanying the catafalque or…
Cantastoria
Cantastoria comes from Italian for "story-singer" and is known by many other names around the world. It is a theatrical…
Antiquities
Antique should be a clue to the meaning of this word, which refers to things that are extremely old or…