bestiary

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Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

The bestiary of acceptable species on which respectable researchers can experiment is expanding.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2022

Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022

Here, reducing the medieval bestiary to a contemporary footnote makes for a listless conclusion to an otherwise strong and compelling show.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2019

It is perhaps this characteristic that makes the usual bestiary so outlandish to the twentieth-century mind.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas