melinite

(ˈmɛlɪˌnaɪt)

(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a high explosive made from picric acid

[C19: via French from Greek mēlinos (colour) of a quince, from mēlon fruit, quince]

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He also describes her as "too brazen for her age." Like many of the Salpetriere hysterics, she seemed to combine an air of innocence with one of sexual knowingness--what Arthur Symons called (in his poem "La Melinite: Moulin Rouge," about the dancer Jane Avril, who as it happens also spent time in Salpetriere) a "depraved virginity."

The hysteria capital of the world

En 1890, bajo el seudonimo de "Melinite" bailo en la "cuadrilla naturalista" del Moulin Rouge.

Moulin Rouge (1952 y 2001): dos estilos de direccion artistica

Here is how the Zionists should work, Herzl explained, if they "were obliged to clear a country of wild beastsC*" "We should not take spear and lance," he emphasizes, "and go out singly in pursuit of bears; we should organize a large and lively hunting party, drive the animals together, and throw a melinite bomb into their midst."

Zionism in Gaza's Shattered Mirror

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