many years ago, an old auntie took me & my sister out to her garden to show off her 'lovely peonises' to us.

she described them with pride saying something like 'my peonises are so big this year, and such shapes and colours!'

i also recall my mother telling me of her friend who'd bought new curtains, and her husband had made 'a pelvis' to go round the top of them.

then there's 'the paranoid camera'

any more?