This week's theme: words related to beards. dundrearies (dun-DREER-eez) noun
Long flowing sideburns. [After the bushy sideburns worn by actor Edward A. Sothern who played the part of Lord Dundreary in the play Our American Cousin (1858), written by Tom Taylor (1817-1880). This was the play being performed at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC during which Abraham Lincoln was shot.] A picture of dundrearies: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Lord_Dundreary.jpg -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "[Jack] narcissistically fluffed out his imperial* and his dundrearies." Patrick Leigh Fermor; Sex O'Clock High; New Statesman (London, UK); Mar 1, 1963. * imperial : a small pointed beard under the lower lip. Sponsors' messages: At $14.95 Law School in a Box sure beats the tuition at Harvard! Check out http://www.quirkbooks.com See a map of your word in the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=h7q ............................................................................ This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers. -Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist and author (b. 1955) Share the magic of words. Send a gift sub: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Remove, change, or subscribe address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/dundrearies.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/dundrearies.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/dundrearies.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
