Posted on 10/23/2014 4:11:26 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".
pavonine \PAV-uh-nahyn, -nin\ adjective
1. of or like a peacock.
2. resembling the feathers of a peacock, as in coloring.
Example sentences:
In her hands the curtains rustle; she hangs silks purchased this morning on Princess Road, color stirring pavonine in the lamplight of her bedroom.
-- Kate Moses, Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, 2003
"The artists were attacked for being a narcissistic, pavonine, and self-regarding group."
--Arifa Akbar; The Cult of Beauty; The Independent (London, UK); Mar 29, 2011.
Etymology:
Pavonine is derived from the Latin word for peacock, pāvō, with the suffix -ine, a suffix of adjectives of Greek or Latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” as in marine.
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 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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
pavo is the word in Spanish for Turkey.
toils, not tires.
Obama’s pavonine performances elicit Pavlovian responses from the Press ...
No frost here yet, knock on wood. Automatic headlights come on at quarter to 8 in the morning though.
This one goes up to pavoeleven.
The MSM, in its pavonine slobbering over Democratic causes, has been completely dark on Republican ascendancy.
Obama struts his stuff so pavonine,
he’s trying to be relevant, fine...
Midtem elections are here,
and Obama they do fear,
as O’s policies are a loaded landmine.
what’s the pic of?
speaking of Spinal Tap and Stonehenge, I talked to my friend Janice yesterday about places to visit in London next week. Her husband worked there for several years and so they lived outside of London. I mentioned Stonehenge and she said don’t bother, it’s no longer worth it. She said in the olden days you could just drive there and look around, then they built a fence around it, but the parking lot was right next to it, now you have to take a shuttle bus from a far flung lot in order to see it. So that was disappointing. As it is we are only there for 4-5 days and I think our time is better spent just in seeing all that we can inside London rather than the day trips to other places. We are going to be outside of London for the Harry Potter tour, and that will take most of a day, but will be when xshub is having his meetings so it will just be xsbaby and I making that trek.
Oh, post pics, especially of Harry Potter stuff.
It was Nigel from Spinal Tap, but it disappeared. Who else would it be?
Obama struts like a peacock, pavonine, but he is so phony that the judges only give him a pavo-four.
I know who it is, even without the pic, and you get an A to eleventy.
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