Hello Alex and everyone I checked my favourite dictionary, the Gage, with its excellent etymologies. Root word from Latin 'cura' meaning 'care' The archaic meaning was 'very careful' or 'exact.' So yes, to intricate.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Alex Stillwell <[email protected] > wrote: > ...it had more a > flavour of describing the object as being intricate, cleverly worked, > needing > knowledge and skill to make it than describing it as being an oddity. > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
