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Word For The Day, Thursday, September 12, 2013 – bordereau
dictionaries ad nauseam
| 12 September 2013
| Thursday's sub
Posted on 09/12/2013 4:35:40 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
bordereau \bawr-duh-ROH; Fr. bawr-duh-ROH\, noun
a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
Example sentences:
At the War Office, Dreyfus was told to take a letter from dictation, "'so phrased as to include some passages'" from the bordereau.
-- Richard Clark Sterne, Dark Mirror, 1994
“We need a photograph of the bordereau,” he said when he met Dubon at his office that evening.
-- Kate Taylor, A Man in Uniform, 2011
Etymology:
Bordereau comes from the French word of the same spelling, which is a diminutive form of the French word for board. It entered English in the late 1800s.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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posted on
09/12/2013 4:36:43 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
No, “bordereau” is French for when a river forms a national boundary.
To: secret garden
Bordereau is the expression exclaimed when someone realizes that a nation needs to have a secure border, usually only after having been mugged by reality.
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posted on
09/12/2013 4:49:31 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Modesty compels me to brag only about my modesty, at which I excel.)
To: secret garden
The tedious bordereau on the various wines of Bordeaux brought me to the border of boredom.
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posted on
09/12/2013 4:50:40 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: SoothingDave
A for creativity.
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posted on
09/12/2013 4:59:27 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: NicknamedBob
A for another creative usage example.
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:00:14 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: edpc
Well done. A for you.
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:01:00 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: SoothingDave
Will that be the name of a new perfume? Odur De Swampy?
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:05:45 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: SoothingDave
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:09:46 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
Bordereau
Bordereau...the place where the nice ladies had all those friendly guys visit them.
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:14:06 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: secret garden
What a silly definition. You plant marigolds and peppermint all around the edge of your tomato patch, the better to keep ants away. THAT’S a bordereau!
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:14:52 AM PDT
by
SAJ
To: xsmommy
the Beaver Countian? that's a thing? At strip clubs all across America.
One, two, three...
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:27:33 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: secret garden
How corrupt is O’s EPA bureau?
They issued another grand bordereau
Their new lefty mission
Stop all coal emission
Take us back to the woods with Thoreau
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:34:04 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
you’d imagine Beaver County PA as a wonderland, LOL!
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:34:25 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
that was just excellent, right there.
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:34:56 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
Meh. Can rising just be enough ? ;)
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:50:14 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
To: xsmommy
They do have their own website.
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:51:51 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
To: xsmommy
Not to mention Joe Namath’s hometown of Beaver Falls.
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posted on
09/12/2013 5:56:04 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: edpc
There was an Uncle Boudrow down in NOLA...
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:32:42 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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