Entry: entrepôt (n.)
In context: Another
Wallace-length sentence. This one
continues directly from above. I’ve also
highlighted one of tomorrow’s words in the same sentence. (Spoiler alert.)
“Nystagmus
or no nystagmus, Tenuate’s a particular favorite of Michael Pemulis, who hoards
for personal ingestion every 75-mg. white Tenuate capsule he can lays hands on,
and does not sell or trade them, except sometimes to roommate Jim Troeltsch,
who nags Pemulis for them and also goes into Pemulis’s special entrepôt-yachting-cap
and promotes still more of them on the sly, a couple at a time, feeling that
they help his sports-color-commentary loquacity, which secret promotions
Pemulis knows about all too well, and is biding his time, never you fear.
If
this footnote can’t make you fall in love with Infinite Jest, then I’m not sure what can.
Definition: Temporary
deposit of goods, provisions, etc.; chiefly concr. a storehouse or assemblage
of storehouses for temporary deposit.
Other: Pronounced /ɑ̃trpo/
SNOOT score: 3
Page: 983
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
SNOOT score: 3
Page: 983
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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