Wondrous Words Wednesday
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My words this week come from The Living End by Robert Leleux.
1. recamier – “Because JoAnn could Camille it up with the best of them – posing limply on a recamier with one lily-white hand poised on her brow, just so, like some consumptive out of a nineteenth-century novel.”
A recamier is a sometimes backless couch with a high curved headrest and low footrest.
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2. chorine – “At that age, I was often able, when in the company of strangers, only to shift between two excruciating gears in my personality: I was either unbearably sheepish, to the point of finding direct eye contact agonizing, or I was almost superhumanly brassy, like some thirties spit-curled chorine.”
A chorine is a chorus girl.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
I love a recamier although I had no idea that’s what they were called. The book sounds really good. The language seems fresh and a bit snarky.
Love your description of her lying on the re……like a consumptive with her hand at her head. Fabulous.
Sorry, don’t have a word today.
I wonder if there’s any difference then between a recamier and a chaise longue- which is what I would have called the chair in that picture. Chorine makes sense when you think about it- I thought it was chlorine of course at first glance.
Yes, re Louise’s comment! It would feel like calling someone Chlorine! LOL
Ooo I like chorine! I gotta remember that one!
I often sold recamiers when I had my shop.
I adore this meme. One of the things that I enjoy most about using an eReader is the ease of looking up words. I am constantly finding interesting new vocabulary. I added your meme to the Book Blog 411 calendar.
I would love a recamier, a blanket and a book.
The word recamier sort of reminds me of recliner.
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I think I might need a recamier.
I love how you often include pictures with your words. I should think about adding that to my posts… If you just had the synonym “recliner”, I wouldn’t have thought of the right piece of furniture. With the picture, I thought, “Oh, THAT thing!” Thanks! And I, like Carol, could use one right now (hand rests on brow…)
That looks like a cozy recamier! Chorine is such an interesting term for choir girl- I wouldn’t have guessed.
I recall recamiers from my teenage years. Those were the couches all the sexy movie stars posed on for the fan magazines.
I love this feature so much!! I have always dreamed of having a recamier in my house, so I can sprawl dramatically across it whenever the mood strikes. Unfortunately none of the rooms in any apartment/house I’ve lived in have had enough space for such luxuries. *sigh* One day……
I like the word chorine, but I LOVE it when it’s preceded by “thirties spit-curled.”
I have always wanted a recamier for my reading room! I loved these words today!
Ohh fancy
Ooh, both of these are good words!
Recamier and chorine are now permanently lodged in my brain as lounges for consumptives and spit-curled chorus girls!
Lovely illustration of the recamier! Excellent words today, both new-to-me, Kathy!
I want one of those!
I would love to have a recamier in my bedroom! Great words today Kathy.
I think that Residence Inns have recamiers in them! They truly do!
i love recamiers .. like both the words and will try to use both..
I always wondered what those couches were called.
Oooh I need a recamier. FANCY.
Those are hilarious words to me!! I can’t even pronounce them
Maybe that is where recliner came from…recamier???
I love recamiers but that isn’t what we call them although at this moment I can’t remember what the name is but it sounds better than recamier. Lol.