accoutre

A component verse form consisting of some or all of the following
acts and objects. Found materials. Real or imagined narrative
aids. Tables of contents. Indexes. Titles. Attributions. Apothegms.
Typesetter's marks. Diacritical marks. Marks of cadence. Songs.
Technical guides. Machine specifications. Pornographs.
Neologisms. A reordering of previous accoutres. Interpolation of
material between several previous accoutres. Extrapolation. Precis
of portions of a cascada (see cascada)

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