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public records office; archives

ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters

Egyptian civilization (civilisation)

ready-made seal; cheap seal

(love) letter tossed into a home

codification

witty (happy, apt) remark; well-worded saying; epigram; aphorism

dead letter

report to the throne

Astronomy

astronomical unit; AU

Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism)

culture of everyday life

hack writer

French; French writing; French literature

department of French literature

lost work; lost writings

partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations

work of a superior quality

round design

literary remains

Noun or verb acting prenominally

culture; arts and sciences

writing (style)

translation; piece of translated writing; translated sentence

Common noun

many cultures

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

multicultural

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

unwritten

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

illiterate; uneducated

Common noun

poor writing

astronomical phenomenon; celestial event