Ayt Of My Favourite Words I Rarely Use

craquelure:

you'll find this on a Rambrandt masterpiece

old yellow'd varnish

Van Rijn loved impasto - but it crack'd over time

skedaddle:

something Speedy Gonzales does

fastest mouse in all Me-hi-co!

mazzanine:

architecture wouldn't be architecture without these intermediate divisions between the ground and first floor

mazzanines extend an open-plan space upwards

only the storeys of a building limit their range

massif (mass-seef):

a giant finger would easily cut itself on one of these

they're razor-sharp but can have beautiful names - Pyrenees!

toodle-pip:

a cheery alternative to cheerio

part of pastoral lore

only eccentrics would say this nowadays

why not reclaim it and make it cool

verdigris:

aged bronze would lose its appeal if it wasn't covered in verdigris

edelweiss:

the white flower of an alpine herb

agent provocateur:

the criminal underworld hates these kind of people

azh-on-prov-at-tur

i prefer its sound to its betraying cause