non-names

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  1. Chantilly
    • Origin:

      French place name
    • Meaning:

      "white"
    • Description:

      The name of a French city famous for its fine lace. Another association: Chantilly cream – a sweetened whipped cream apparently invented there in the 17th century by a chef at the Château de Chantilly. The town probably takes is name from the Gallo-Roman personal name Cantilius, derived from a word for "white".
  2. Prairie
    • Origin:

      English nature name
    • Meaning:

      "prairie"
    • Description:

      Unspecific place name with a wonderfully wide-open, spacious, western feel; used for a character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland.
  3. agathist
    • argon
      • aubergine
        • belgard
          • brazen
            • coriander
              • eerie
                • elysium
                  • emollient
                    • jelly
                      • lithium
                        • pyrrhic
                          • quell
                            • varicella