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teapoy
noun
a small three-legged table or stand.
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Teapoy 鈥渁 small three-legged table or stand鈥� is adapted from Hindi 迟墨辫腻颈, with a spelling change likely because of the association with tea. Hindi 迟墨辫腻颈, however, is not related to tea; instead, 迟墨辫腻颈 comes from Persian 蝉颈辫腻测补 鈥渢hree-legged stand.鈥� The phonetic change from Persian s to Hindi t is due to a replacement of the Persian word for 鈥渢hree鈥� with its Hindi cognate 迟墨苍, while the instrument sitar 鈥渁 lute with a small, pear-shaped body鈥� preserves this Persian numeral. 厂颈辫腻测补 is a compound of Persian 蝉脓 鈥渢hree鈥� and 辫腻测 鈥渇oot,鈥� which are distant relatives of English three and foot, Latin 迟谤脓蝉 and 辫脓蝉, Ancient Greek 迟谤别卯蝉 and 辫辞煤蝉, and Sanskrit 迟谤铆 and 辫谩诲. Teapoy was first recorded in English in the 1820s.
how is teapoy used?
There was a small wooden teapoy near the sofa, with an embroidered cross stitch tablecloth on it, with designs of Mistress Mary, quite contrary, watering her flowerbeds. Naomi had done it for her craft class in the ninth standard. A beautiful crystal vase, filled with wilting red roses stood on the teapoy. There were faded yellow half-curtains for the windows strung on taut springs. But the windows were shut.
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guerdon
noun
a reward, recompense, or requital.
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Guerdon 鈥渁 reward, recompense, or requital鈥� is a variation of Old French werdoun, continuing a trend in which the w in Germanic-origin borrowings often becomes gu when adapted into French and other Romance languages. For other examples, compare the cognate pairs ward and guard, warranty and guarantee, and William and Guillaume. Old French werdoun comes from Medieval Latin widerdonum, which in turn was adapted from Old High German 飞颈诲补谤濒艒苍, with a phonetic change from l to d because of the influence of Latin 诲艒苍耻尘 鈥済颈蹿迟.鈥� 奥颈诲补谤濒艒苍 is a compound of widar 鈥渁gain, back鈥� (which survives today in the German expression auf Wiedersehen 鈥渦ntil we meet again鈥�) and 濒艒苍 鈥渞eward鈥� (cognate to Latin lucrum 鈥済ain, profit,鈥� as in English lucrative). Guerdon was first recorded in English in the mid-14th century.
how is guerdon used?
What a Cannes Film Festival. It has been an unruly jungle. Unruly and luxuriant. The movies have climbed over each other in excellence, every new one transcending the last as it reaches towards that gilded guerdon, that light-giving cynosure of legendary tree-forms, the Palme d鈥橭r.
BIRON. When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name, And Rosaline they call her: ask for her; And to her white hand see thou do commend This seal’d-up counsel. There’s thy guerdon; go.
[giving [Costard] a shilling]
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disjecta membra
plural noun
scattered members; disjointed portions or parts.
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Disjecta membra 鈥渄isjointed portions or parts鈥� is a term from Latin that is altered from the phrase 诲颈蝉箩别肠迟墨 membra 辫辞脓迟补别 鈥渓imbs of a dismembered poet,鈥� which appears in the writings of Horace (known to his Roman contemporaries as Quintus Horatius Flaccus). The reason for the spelling change is simple grammar: in the original Latin, the possessive adjective 诲颈蝉箩别肠迟墨 鈥渄ismembered鈥� matches the possessive noun 辫辞脓迟补别 鈥渙f a poet.鈥� The endings are different because 辫辞脓迟补别 is irregular; though it looks feminine with its -ae ending, it is in fact a masculine noun. With 辫辞脓迟补别 removed from the phrase, 诲颈蝉箩别肠迟墨 changes to match the neuter subject noun membra, becoming disjecta. Even in modern Spanish, the feminine-looking noun poeta 鈥減oet鈥� is still masculine, and typical masculine -o adjectives modify it. Disjecta membra was first recorded in English in the early 18th century.
how is disjecta membra used?
One gets the notion that these boys are starting again from the beginning, with the separate tone and the separate sonority. Notes are strewn about like disjecta membra; there is an end to continuity in the old sense and an end of thematic relationships. In this music one waits to hear what will happen next without the slightest idea what will happen, or why what happened did happen once it has happened.
As she led the way westward past a long line of areas which, through the distortion of their paintless rails, revealed with increasing candour the disjecta membra of bygone dinners, Lily felt that Rosedale was taking contemptuous note of the neighbourhood; and before the doorstep at which she finally paused he looked up with an air of incredulous disgust.
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