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vanitas

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary
vanitas /ˈvanəˌtäs, ˈvænəˌtɑs /
▸ noun a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.
– ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘vanity, futility’.
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