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Moonlighter's second job
Answer for the clue "Moonlighter's second job ", 8 letters:
parergon
Word definitions for parergon in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A piece of work that is supplementary to or a byproduct of a larger work.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parergon \Pa*rer"gon\, n. [L.] See Parergy .
Usage examples of parergon.
I have ventured to say the above, because during the remainder of my book I shall be occupied almost exclusively with Italy, and wish to make it clear that my Italian rambles are taken not because I prefer Italy to England, but as by way of parergon, or by-work, as every man should have both his profession and his hobby.
Bookcases filled with grimoires, daybooks, hornbooks, arcane thesauri, enchiridia, illuminated manuscripts, diaries, palimpsests, incunabula, claviculae, parerga, ana and epilegomena.
The people of that period considered it indispensable to translate the whole world into a forest of Symbols, Hints, Equestrian Games, Masquerades, Paintings, Courtly Arms, Trophies, Blazons, Escutcheons, Ironic Figures, Sculpted Obverses of Coins, Fables, Allegories, Apologias, Epigrams, Riddles, Equivocations, Proverbs, Watchwords, Laconic Epistles, Epitaphs, Parerga, Lapidary Engravings, Shields, Glyphs, Clipei, and if I may, I will stop here—but they did not stop.