ephemeron
Americannoun
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anything short-lived or ephemeral.
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ephemera, items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ephemeron
1570–80; < Greek ephḗmeron short-lived insect, noun use of neuter of ephḗmeros; see ephemeral
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Moore has developed a subspecialty in this sort of high-camp Gulf ephemeron: for New Orleans he designed the Piazza d'Italia and the snazziest part of the 1984 World's Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Science sees man as the ephemeron of an hour, an iridescent bubble on a seething, whirling torrent, an accident in a world of incalculable and clashing forces.
From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John
Let not the ephemeron that lights on a baby's hand generalize too rashly upon the non-growing of organisms!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
O man! wilt thou never conceive, that thou art but an ephemeron?
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
It would be useless to enter into the detail of the plot of an ephemeron, that depends more upon its quips and cranks than dramatic construction for its success.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 by Various
Since 2016, they’ve been digitizing Saar’s expansive archive, including correspondence, sketches, playbills, documents and ephemera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The new complex’s museum presents a bland, uninspiring collection of ephemera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
If anything proves the market value of seemingly worthless ephemera, Walker added, it’s fans clawing for printed set lists at the end of a concert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Then he dwindled and his lines blurred into ephemera and he slid out through the door, which was open perhaps an inch.
From The Giants From Outer Space by Reynard, Geoff St.
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