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Parergon

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Pa-rer′gon

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Definition 2024

parergon

parergon

English

Noun

parergon ‎(plural parergons)

A piece of work that is supplementary to or a byproduct of a larger work.
- 1945, J.C. Masterman, The Double-Cross System:
  […] the running and control of double agents is a[n] […] infinitely complicated task. It could not be done as a parergon by any intelligence department elsewhere […]