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

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

In the penetralia of the parlour which he left I saw a group of floury comrades, the prominent features of the gathering being depression and bagatelle.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

My legation button carried me through the guard, and I found an excellent place under a cardinal's wing, in the penetralia within the railing of the altar.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker