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The word is both plural and singular. [2] One definition for ephemera is "the minor transient documents of everyday life". [3] [4] Ephemera are often paper-based, printed items, including menus, ticket stubs, newspapers, postcards, posters, sheet music, stickers, and greeting cards. However, since the 1990s, the term has been used to refer to ...
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ ɪ ˈ f ɛ m ə r ə s /; pl. ephemerides / ˌ ɛ f ə ˈ m ɛ r ə d iː z /; from Latin ephemeris 'diary', and Greek ἐφημερίς (ephemeris) 'diary, journal') is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects as well as artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly ...
Ephemerality. The travelling festival Burning Man was described by one scholar as the "very definition of ephemerality". [1] Ephemerality (from the Greek word ἐφήμερος, meaning 'lasting only one day' [2]) is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly. Academically, the term ephemeral constitutionally describes a ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language . The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.
Unibroue was founded by business partners André Dion and Serge Racine who had acquired 75% of La Brasserie Massawippi Inc. of Lennoxville, the initiator of the micro-brewery movement in Québec, in 1990. The two purchased the remainder of the shares at the end of 1991 when they transferred their interest in La Brasserie Massawippi Inc. to ...
Ephemeral art. Ephemeral art [1] is the name given to all artistic expression conceived under a concept of transience in time, of non-permanence as a material and conservable work of art. Because of its perishable and transitory nature, ephemeral art (or temporary art) does not leave a lasting work, or if it does – as would be the case with ...
Encyclopédie. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ( French for 'Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts'), [1] better known as Encyclopédie ( French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedi] ), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements ...
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-sixties of the 20th century and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). Known and valued amongst linguists ...