Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!
I haven’t been doing a lot of reading so I haven’t encountered any new words, so it’s back to my Word-a-Day calendar this week.
1. diapause – “Diapause in the southwestern corn borer occurs in the late larval stage of development.”
Diapause is a period of physiologically enforced dormancy between periods of activity.
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2. jacquerie – “The thicker the masonry, the more likely the fortress would withstand the anticipated Jacquerie.” — Michael Know Beran, NATIONAL REVIEW, September 7, 2009
Jacquerie is often capitalized and means a peasants’ revolt. It gets its name from the 14th Century French nobles’ habit of calling peasants “Jacques.”
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3. dernier cri – “When it comes to shopping for a new wardrobe, Jacqueline ignores the dernier cri and instead picks clothes that suit her own tastes.”
There’s a reason, I didn’t know this phrase – I’m like Jacqueline. Dernier Cri means the newest fashion.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
Actually I think dernier cri is used more often to refer to latest fashion in the sense of what we now call a meme. But certainly if it would apply to fashion, it wouldn’t apply to me as well! In fact, yesterday, to Jim’s horror, I went to the Apple Store in my long underwear….
Hi — I was wondering where your words came from. A book I read — Sloan’s “Sourdough” — was fascinated by neat words and called them out in a great way. You might enjoy it if you haven’t read it yet. My Wordy Wednesday here:
http://maefood.blogspot.com/search/label/Wordy%20Wednesday
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Interesting words. I’m also like Jacqueline 🙂
No on all three!
Nope, nope, and nope. I should have gotten #3 because I took 4 quarters of French in college! It obviously didn’t stick.
Clueless on all three!
You found theee tough ones this week, although I have heard jacquerie before. I just couldn’t define it where I saw it.
Words I’ve never heard before.
These are the best words ever!
Dernier cri is my favorite of the three! All wonderful words!
Never heard of these words before! Always fun!
Those are some strange ones! I don’t think I’ve ever known one on your calendar!