What Does the Word Novercal Mean?

: of, relating to, or characteristic of a stepmother of true novercal type, dragon and devil— Robert Browning.

What does Novercal mean?

Novercal: Stepmotherly; pertaining to a stepmother. From the Latin novercalis, from noverca meaning stepmother.

What does Paintbox mean?

: a box for paints specifically : a box that holds cakes of dry paint (as water colors) or usually small containers (as jars, tubes) of liquid or semiliquid paint and that typically has one or more small pans for mixing and blending the paints.