Hamlet vocabulary

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Mount Ossa
Pelion
Elsinore
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ilium

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Definition:
the pelvic bone

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But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
Stoops to his base;

William Shakespeare. Hamlet (1600)
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whose iliac crests had not yet flared

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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