62 IJmuiden: seaport in the northern Netherlands. ‘IJ’ is considered to be a single letter in Dutch, so both elements are capitalised in proper nouns.

63 quack: a medical practitioner with no skill or qualifications except persuasiveness.

64 mandora: an eighteenth-century form of lute.

65 alembic: two glass vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling cordials and other concentrated liquids.

66 henbane: also called stinking nightshade, a poisonous plant that produced hallucinations, among other properties.

67 clarify: to make into a clear liquid by removing suspended particles of fat by boiling and skimming, a hot and dirty process.

68 Mustela: the weasel’s Latin name for its genus is Mustela.

69 Golconda: area of southern India famous for its diamond mines.

70 board wages: reduced pay for live-in servants to compensate for their having a much reduced workload.

71 sans: French for ‘without’, used in elite speech to dignify terms of social etiquette.

72 portmanteau: Victorian suitcase consisting of two halves of equal capacity.

73 infra dig: from Latin infra dignitatem, beneath one’s dignity.

74 Almanach: Almanach de Gotha, a directory of European royalty and nobility, and an arbiter of court usage.

75 Wanderjahr: German, the tradition of a year of travel after one’s studies.

76 ding an sich: German, ‘thing in itself’, a philosophical concept discussed by Kant.

77 partisan: following a single particular cause or ideal.

78 Abendmusik: German term for an evening concert, normally held in a church.

79 specie: coins.

80 paunched: gutted, removing the offal for cooking and discarding the undesirable parts of the animal.

81 soutane: long black robe worn by a Catholic priest.

82 Aesculapius: Greek god of medicine, whose attribute was a snake coiled around a staff, thus snakes were sacred to him. Tinkel has had a Classical education.

83 tillage: ploughed agricultural land.

84 prisoner on the tower: the mullah is making the call for prayer from the tower of a mosque, which they have never seen before.

85 Walpurgisnacht: feast of St Walpurga, synonymous with a celebration of witchcraft, since her feast-day is 1 May, the pagan festival called Beltane in Scotland.

86 gimlet: a slender tool used to drill a hole in wood by turning.

87 inversion: Warner makes a pun on the English term from her youth used to describe homosexuality, and the relationship that Banian is to be asked to enter into.

88 Sclavonian: one of the languages of Croatia.

89 tutorially: they expect Banian to perform as they have taught him.

90 au-delà: French, the beyond, the hereafter.