This week's theme: toponyms -- words derived from the names of places. vaudeville (VAWD-vil) noun
Theatrical entertainment featuring a variety of acts such as songs, dances, comedy, acrobatics, magic, pantomime, etc. [From French vaudeville, from Old French vaudevire, a shortening of chanson du Vau de Vire (song of the Valley of Vire), from Vire, a valley of Calvados, Normandy in France where satirical folksongs were composed by Olivier Basselin in the fifteenth century.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=vaudeville -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The family travelled around Australia with their big tent show, entertaining crowds with vaudeville acts and horse stunts until the 1950s." Eamon Hamilton; A Hundred Years Young; Hawkesbury Gazette (Australia); Jun 2, 2005. Sponsored by: AdSpeed - Advanced ad serving solution. Easy to use, reliable, fast service. http://www.adspeed.com/?src=wordsmith Free! Extra issue of any of Champs-Elysees Audio Magazines in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Subscribe at: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith7 ............................................................................ Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. -Jalaluddin Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/vaudeville.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/vaudeville.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/vaudeville.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
