Kestrell

What I heard: sore rose
The actual word: sorrows
From a letter written by Nerval, to a lover:
"Tell me your sore rose..."

I like this image of sorrow as a sore rose.

pronounced CHIP-oh

defintion: a Southwester/Mexican monster, part coyote, part man; magical, vicious, prone to eating the eyes from its victims, ecept in the spring, when it wanders the wasteland howling at the fool moon, looking for lone young girls out walking, which it kidnaps and brings back toits lair until they either fall in love with him or kill him or both.

Ballads about the chippot fall into two categories: sad slow love ballads or fast frenzied descriptions of blood and death

Or, at least, those were the sort of descriptions I was expecting when I went to check the word.

Sadly, once I spelled it out, it turned out to be "chapeau," which is not a creature known for its lonely love howls sung tot he fool moon or its frenzied attacks on human eyeballs.n.