Coordinate term: barb

The English literary imagination never latched on to the modest craftsmen in chapels or theatre pits; professional musicians became fiction-worthy only when the Geniekult started to inspire Künstlerromane around figures like Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Paganini, or Liszt.

This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “Rotten egg! Rotten egg!” and pretending to throw missiles.

to come of age; she is now of age