penetralia

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Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

And away through the noiseless glass door buzzed Josephine, on her way to the basement, followed by Isabella on her way to the inner penetralia of the second floor; while Col.

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry

He dropped his own name, assumed the pose of a grand dame familiar with the inner penetralia and sacred secrets of the exclusive circle of the American Colony in Paris.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

The same "sesame" opened to him the coulisse of the Opera and the penetralia of the Fran�ais.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James