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ozenbrig
“Perhaps the most widely used imported cloth was "ozenbrig, " a tough, coarse linen woven in Osnabruck, Westphalia, which they made up into nearly everything from breeches and entire suits to sheets, table covers, and carpetbags.”

panniered
pan⋅nier   [pan-yer, -ee-er] Show IPA
–noun
1. a basket, esp. a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
2. a basket for carrying on a person's back, or one of a pair to be slung across the back of a beast of burden.
3. a similar type of bag, usually one of a pair, fastened over a bicycle's rear wheel.
4. (on a dress, skirt, etc.) a puffed arrangement of drapery at the hips.
5. an oval framework formerly used for distending the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips.
Also, panier.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME panier < MF < L pānārium breadbasket, equiv. to pān(is) bread + -ārium -ary; see -ier 2

Related forms:
panniered, adjective

dace
/dayss/

• noun (pl. same) a small freshwater fish related to the carp.

— ORIGIN Old French dars (see DART).


skewbald
• adjective (of a horse) with irregular patches of white and another colour (properly not black).

• noun a skewbald horse.

— ORIGIN from obsolete skewed skewbald, on the pattern of piebald.

auscultation
/awskltaysh’n/
• noun listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs with a stethoscope.
ORIGIN Latin, from auscultare ‘listen to’.

marasmic
Main Entry:
ma·ras·mus
Pronunciation:
\mə-ˈraz-məs\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Late Latin, from Greek marasmos, from marainein to waste away
Date:
1656
: a condition of chronic undernourishment occurring especially in children and usually caused by a diet deficient in calories and proteins
— ma·ras·mic \-ˈraz-mik\ adjective

(I get the feeling that I look "marasmic" up at least once a year.)

vedette
noun
Definition:
1. forward scout: a mounted soldier positioned ahead of a force of soldiers to serve as a scout
2. small fast scouting vessel: a small fast boat that serves as a scout for a seaborne force
[Late 17th century. Via French< Italian vedetta, alteration (after vedere "see") of veletta< Spanish vela "watch" < Latin vigilare (see vigilant)]

vernissage
private showing: a private showing or preview before the public opening of an art exhibition

[Early 20th century. < French, "varnishing," because originally the day before a public exhibition, when exhibitors varnished paintings after they were in place]

condylarth
Pronunciation: (kon'dl-ärth"), [key]
—n.
any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.

donzel
donzel (plural donzels)
(obsolete) A young squire or the attendant to a knight; a page

profluence
Etymology
From Latin prōfluentia, from prōfluere ‘to flow forth’.
[edit]Pronunciation
IPA: /ˈpɹəʊflʊəns/
[edit]Noun
profluence (uncountable)
(obsolete) Onward flow; current.
(rare) The progression or flow (of time, events etc.)

"Pelion upon Ossa"
When the giants Otus and Ephialtes attempted to storm Olympus, they piled Mount Pelion upon Mount Ossa, which became a proverbial allusion for any huge but fruitless attempt.

pudicity
Pu*dic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. pudicit['e], L. pudicitia.] Modesty; chastity. --Howell.

sago
: a dry granulated or powdered starch prepared from the pith of a sago palm and used in foods and as textile stiffening

carking
Pronunciation: \ˈkär-kiŋ\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from carken, literally, to load, burden, from Anglo-French carker, from Late Latin carricare
Date: circa 1565
: burdensome , annoying

china root
CHINA-ROOT, n. The root of a species Smilax, brought from the East Indies, of a pale reddish color, with no smell, and very little taste.

persicaria
A taxonomic genus, within family Polygonaceae — the smartweeds or pinkweeds.

sol-fa
sol-fa [ sōl f ]
noun
Definition:
music
Same as tonic sol-fa
transitive and intransitive verb (past and past participle sol-faed, present participle sol-fa·ing, 3rd person present singular sol-fas)
Definition:
sing using sol-fa: to sing a tune using the sol-fa syllables

voussoir
Pronunciation:
\vü-ˈswär, ˈvü-ˌ\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from Latin volvere to roll — more at voluble
Date:
1728
: one of the wedge-shaped pieces forming an arch or vault — see arch illustration

cardoon
noun
Definition:
spiny plant with edible parts: a large perennial plant related to the artichoke with spiny leaves and edible roots and leafstalks. Native to: southern Europe. Latin name Cynara cardunculus.
[Early 17th century. < French cardon< Latin carduus "thistle"]

mansard
noun 1 a roof having four sides, in each of which the lower part of the slope is steeper than the upper part. 2 Brit. another term for GAMBREL.
— ORIGIN named after the 17th-century French architect François Mansart.

Main Entry:
sap·id Listen to the pronunciation of sapid
Pronunciation:
\ˈsa-pəd\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Latin sapidus tasty, from sapere to taste — more at sage
Date:
1623

1: having flavor : flavorful2archaic : agreeable to the mind
— sa·pid·i·ty Listen to the pronunciation of sapidity \sa-ˈpi-də-tē\ noun archaic

anent
Pronunciation:
\ə-ˈnent\
Function:
preposition
Etymology:
Middle English onevent, anent, from Old English on efen alongside, from on + efen even
Date:
13th century
: about, concerning

bourn
noun
Definition:
small stream: a small stream that flows only in the winter months
[14th century. S English variant of burn2]

erysipelas
/errisippilss/
• noun a skin disease caused by a streptococcus and characterized by large raised red patches on the face and legs.
ORIGIN Greek erusipelas; perhaps related to eruthros ‘red’ and pella ‘skin’.

rondavel
ron·dav·el [ ron dv'l ] (plural ron·dav·els)
noun
Definition:
South Africa thatched circular building: a circular hut or other building, usually with a conical thatched roof
[Late 19th century. < Afrikaans rondawel]