All 3 Uses of
variant
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- Opposite the line she read, in pencil, Cf. variant, 1687 ed. Put there maybe by some student.†
Chpt 4
- The penciled note in the paperback had mentioned a variant.†
Chpt 5 *
- …tryst or odious awry, O Niccolo," which besides bringing in a quite graceless Alexandrine, is difficult to make sense of syntactically, unless we accept the rather unorthodox though persuasive argument of J.-K. Sale that the line is really a pun on "This trystero dies irae…… " This, however, it must be pointed out, leaves the line nearly as corrupt as before, owing to no clear meaning for the word trystero. unless it be a pseudo-Italianate variant on triste ( = wretched, depraved).†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(variant) something a little different from others of the same type