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polychromatic
adjective
having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
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Polychromatic 鈥渆xhibiting a variety of colors鈥� is a compound of two Ancient Greek elements: the combining form poly- 鈥渕any鈥� and the adjective chromatic 鈥減ertaining to color.鈥� Poly- comes from Ancient Greek 辫辞濒媒蝉 鈥渕any,鈥� which is not to be confused with the similar-sounding word 辫贸濒颈蝉 鈥渃ity.鈥� Instead, the plural of 辫辞濒媒蝉, 辫辞濒濒辞铆, is the source of the expression hoi polloi 鈥渢he masses,鈥� and 辫辞濒媒蝉 is a cognate of Latin 辫濒奴蝉 (stem 辫濒奴谤-) 鈥渕ore,鈥� the source of plural and surplus. Chromatic derives from Ancient Greek 肠丑谤么尘补 鈥渃olor鈥� and also appears in compound terms isochromatic 鈥渉aving the same color鈥� and monochromatic 鈥渉aving tones of one color.鈥� Polychromatic was first recorded in English in the 1840s.
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In July the Internet exploded with a photo of schoolchildren …. In the center of the image, a crouching girl in a yellow T-shirt holds a medium-sized turtle toward an adult taking a picture of the scene. Smiling classmates, dressed in matching white, green, red and blue T-shirts, gather around the girl and turtle …. [A] closer examination reveals that the many hues in the background and the children鈥檚 clothing are not real colors. The seemingly polychromatic image is actually black-and-white, overlaid with a thin multicolored grid.
Polychromatic displays became a global phenomenon soon after Italian pyrotechnicians, in the 1830s, leveraged metallic powders to create specific colors. From fizzling handheld sparklers to elaborately orchestrated displays, fireworks have been a part of celebrations for centuries.
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felicitous
adjective
well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate.
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Felicitous 鈥渨ell-suited for the occasion,鈥� based on the noun felicity 鈥渉appiness; skillful faculty,鈥� derives from Latin 蹿脓濒墨肠颈迟腻蝉 鈥済ood luck, happiness.鈥� 贵脓濒墨肠颈迟腻蝉 comes from the adjective 蹿脓濒墨虫 (stem 蹿脓濒墨肠颈-) 鈥渓ucky, happy,鈥� plus the noun-forming suffix -迟腻蝉 鈥�-苍别蝉蝉.鈥� 贵脓濒墨虫 and its descendants in modern Romance languages show a common pattern, namely, that a word for 鈥渓ucky鈥� in a mother language eventually gains the additional sense of 鈥渉appy,鈥� and either the 鈥渉appy鈥� sense alone or, less often, both senses are preserved in a daughter language. We can see this tendency when we compare Latin 蹿脓濒墨虫 鈥渓ucky, happy鈥� with Spanish feliz 鈥渉appy鈥� and Italian felice 鈥渉appy, lucky鈥� (though the 鈥渓ucky鈥� sense in Italian is only in certain contexts). A stronger example lies in the English language itself, in which happy derives from the noun hap 鈥渓uck,鈥� which is also the source of the verb happen. Felicitous was first recorded in English circa 1730.
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I have the desire in my photographs to link a still life to a landscape, so by photographing through the glass, I was able to render the water, and the sky, and the landscape as one scene. And I just tried to compose the fish into the landscape. So it鈥檚 a committed composition that the fish are swimming through and it鈥檚 just a matter of timing it and taking a number of frames of images. It was an idea that one of those frames would have the most felicitous composition, one that has the best relationship of the foreground to the background.
I have successfully made it to swimming holes that did, in fact, exist at the time of my arrival …. The swimming holes are what happen when the water pauses on its own and, entering into some felicitous arrangement with the rocks and soil, renders a space wide and deep enough to hold some stillness.
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bucchero
noun
an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
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Bucchero 鈥渁n Etruscan black ceramic ware鈥� is a borrowing from Italian, though its roots trace back much further. Prior to Italian, bucchero was adapted from Spanish 产煤肠补谤辞 and, earlier, Portuguese 辫煤肠补谤辞 鈥渃lay vessel.鈥� Before Portuguese, 辫煤肠补谤辞 ultimately derives from Latin 辫艒肠耻濒耻尘 鈥済oblet,鈥� but between these two points, the word may have passed through Mozarabic, a variety of Romance once spoken in the south of Spain. Mozarabic was not a language but rather a continuum of dialects descended from Vulgar Latin that developed in the regions of Spain under Moorish control and that Arabic heavily influenced. In this way, Mozarabic was for centuries an intermediary that allowed for numerous terms of Arabic and Latin origin to enter (or, in the case of Latin, to reenter) the Spanish language. Bucchero was first recorded in the late 1880s.
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Many scholars believe that the earliest bucchero evolved slowly from a type of impasto pottery made by the latest potters of the Villanovan culture, in other words the people who became the Etruscans. Other experts have noted the strong similarities between certain metallic (and ivory) shapes that may have influenced the development of early bucchero.
Another stellar piece is a circa 550-500BC blackware bucchero kantharos from Etruria. Distinctly burnished, bucchero is considered the signature ceramic of the Etruscans and was mostly used by the elite class. The bucchero offered by Apollo Galleries has been held in several prestigious European collections and was also sold by Christie鈥檚 London, in 1998.
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