- adept: highly skilled
- avarice: greed
- Corinth: a city in Greece
- counterpane: a bedspread
- curvetted: pranced, leaped
- distaff: part of a spinning whell
- flax: a plant which linen is made
- glade: open, grassy space in a meadow
- oblige: to do a favor or service for
- Pantheon: the family tree of the Greek gods
- shades: disembodied spirits
- truce: a peace tready