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oeuvre [oe-vruh]

noun
French. the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole.
French. any one of the works of a writer, painter, or the like.
Examples:

I am very fond of our body of work together, our oeuvre, even though logging 24-hour days for years on end for a band is not the easiest way to lead a life that could have been very creative in its own right.
Ian Faith, interviewed by Chick Hadrian, "Spinal Tap: The Unauthorized Sequel," Spy, July/August, 1992
And in such moments of meta-ennui, he would diagram a work, or select an object and claim it as part of his oeuvre, under the category of "readymade."
Thomas B. Hess, "To-Do Champ," New York, January 21, 1974
Origin:

Oeuvre comes to English by way of French and can ultimately be traced to the Latin word for "work," opus. It entered English in the late 1800s.

kickshaw [kik-shaw]

noun
a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
something showy but without value; trinket; trifle.
Examples:

When a stale cold fool is well heated, and hashed by a satirical cook, he may be tossed up into a kickshaw not disagreeable.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), Letter to Mr. Caryll, The Works of Alexander Pope: Volume VIII, 1824
Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, 1931

grapehanger [kreyp-hang-er]

noun

a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist. Also, crepehanger.

Examples:

Ordinarily Encore would have suggested, with amiable malice, that Gottlieb was a "crapehanger" who wasted time destroying the theories of other men instead of making new ones of his own.

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

I don’t like to be--what my people sometimes call a crapehanger--but Teff-el was to have been crushed by the new ships equipped with the transpon beam and the magnetic and gravity bombs.

John W. Campbell, The Mightiest Machine, 1947

Origin:

Crapehanger is an Americanism with roots in the custom of hanging crepe paper as a sign of mourning. It came into popular usage in the 1920s.

horology [haw-ROL-uh-Jee,hoh]

noun

the art or science of making timepieces or of measuring time.

Examples:

From a scientific perspective, the theory and practice of horology touches on all forms of scientific endeavor--it has always been especially important in the histories of astronomy and navigation.

Jonathan Betts, Time Restored, 2006

Thus I alternated between cookery and horology, clapping the pudding in the large oven and then sitting down once more to watch the clock until an incendiary sausage, bursting into flame with mighty sputterings, recalled me suddenly to the culinary department.

Richard Austin Freeman, Mr. Polton Explains, 1940

Origin:

Horology shares roots with the word hour in the Greek term hṓrā, which means "time, season, hour." It entered English in the early 1800s.