Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #21
April 6, 2008
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
21.) Exuviae
-noun plural, singular exuvium
a.) The cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms, such as the shells of crabs, skins of snakes, or the external coverings of the larvae and nymphs of insects.*
[Origin: From Latin exuere, "to take off."]
*Domestic dust is composed largely of what I consider to be bits of human exuviae. In fact, it is estimated that our entire outer layers of skin are shed every day or two at a rate of 7 million skin flakes per minute! Let the spring cleaning commence! My question is, does this, our collectively sloughed residue floating about, count as power parts, thus making us susceptible to evil sorcery if obtained by the wrong hands?
