GRIMOIRE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Grimoire

... short the day seemed. Yet my eyes have been so long dazzled by the great white light, and so confused by the sorcery of that interminable maze of mysterious signs which made each street vista seem a glimpse into some enormous grimoire, that they are now weary even of the soft glowing of all these paper lanterns, likewise covered with characters that look like texts from a Book of Magic. And I feel at last the coming of that drowsiness which always ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn