I'm applying a particular style to a story presently and having had my head in it a while I think I may have warped my perception. I'm using nouns to modify names. i.e. baker James stole tinker Paul's keys. Read okay?
It seems a little awkward to me but I can see how it could work. Could also be charming. I think I'd have to see more of an example of how it works in the overall narrative to make any sort of judgement, but full steam ahead I say.
I can go with charming all day long. In context (ignore placeholders(research in prog.)): ...were the [Franco-latin] words 'Doctor Mirabilis’. A man, another web search revealed, credited with the invention of the object itself. Made in [his] homage she surmised and scratched her chin—surely not the original? Like the traveller Soamy half a millennia before, Monica struggled getting the glass to perform its task. She held it to her lamp, to her eye, to a crane fly on her wall and to some text in her journal. But in each case it returned nothing...
