burin

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A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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1

A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.

I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.

2

A prehistoric flint tool

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I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin

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