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bricolage
noun
a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things.
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The noun bricolage in French means 鈥渄o it yourself,鈥� formed from the verb bricoler 鈥渢o do odd jobs, do small chores; make improvised repairs,鈥� from Middle French bricoler 鈥渢o zigzag, bounce off,鈥� ultimately a derivative of the Old French noun bricole 鈥渁 trifle.鈥� The French suffix –age, completely naturalized in English –age, as in carriage, marriage, passage, voyage, comes from –腻迟颈肠耻尘, a noun suffix from the neuter of the Latin adjective suffix –腻迟颈肠耻蝉. Bricolage entered English in the second half of the 20th century.
how is bricolage used?
Indeed, if we scratch beneath the surface, English is a veritable bricolage of these 鈥榖orrowed鈥� words.
So, for now, with my basket in one hand and my daughter鈥檚 little palm in the other, we鈥檒l continue to walk the world in search of people, spaces and moments that move our soul and gather them into a living piece of art, a bricolage of memories called home.
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leporine
adjective
of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
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Leporine, 鈥減ertaining to or resembling a rabbit or hare,鈥� a technical term in zoology, comes straight from the Latin adjective 濒别辫辞谤墨苍耻蝉, a derivative of the noun lepus (inflectional stem lepor-) 鈥渉are.鈥� The etymology of lepus is obscure, but it may be related to Greek dialect 濒茅辫辞谤颈蝉 (Sicily) and 濒别产脓谤铆蝉 (Marseille). Leporine entered English in the mid-17th century.
how is leporine used?
Of course, the Easter Bunny isn鈥檛 our only leporine hero. There is a general fascination with hares, bunnies, and rabbits in children鈥檚 literature and other aspects of popular and folk culture around the world.
His face looked naked, his teeth big and leporine.
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cackleberry
noun
a hen's egg used for food.
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Cackleberry, 鈥渁n egg, a hen鈥檚 egg,鈥� is a piece of facetious American slang. The word is a compound of the verb cackle 鈥渢o utter a shrill, broken cry such as a hen makes鈥� and the common noun berry 鈥渟mall fruit without a pit,鈥� also used often in compounds such as strawberry or gooseberry.
how is cackleberry used?
“Cackleberries,鈥� said Gately, picking up one of the eggs and examining it as though it were an emerald. 鈥淎 genuine cackleberry.鈥�
Klock had played swell ball all week, scampering around station one like a hare鈥攖he March variety, of course鈥攂ut he wasn’t hitting hard enough to imperil the shell of a cackleberry.
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