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Drat! I shudda posted what I was thinkin': Sally Post
I wudda been darn near close!
Belated regret,
DratDratDubbaDrat!
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I wondered what peculiar logic made that name choice passible. Garderobe sounds like closet, a place to keep garments. A water closet is obviously not a place to keep garments.
But it is a place to keep garments clean?!?
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garderobe
If, as I think it probably was, it was just a hole in the floor to squat over, just think about the mechanics with mediaeval garments in mind. "Mind your clothes" sounds about right.
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Bridget! You're back!!! Oh, joy! I'd thought we'd never see you again! Oh, welcome back, Honey, welcome back!! [dancing with delight e]
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I am the word that means a facial expression showing amusement with something that has been inanely expressed. What word am I?
Best regards,
Wordwaiting
Still waiting...clues: It's a type of irony and it begins with the letter "m"...
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Another definition: The attraction of a lovely lady as place for couples to walk. Heads the list.
p.S. Another clue. Only one "l"
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oh! I know! can I?? teacher, call on me!!!!!!
Responding steganographically: I did enjoy the posts that all u re-do in this thread.
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mycterismus is the word. It was too hard of a word for this game, I do believe, because it's too rarely used. I've learned a lesson: need to use less rare words.
Somebody play a definition of a word we've discussed here that ain't so rare. I would propose one I read y'all discussed on this board a while back in a dicussion that was a lot of fun to read about--I wasn't a member at the time--and I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the posts there. But it wasn't a dictionary word--it was an author's creation having to do with the arrangement of chimneys, but that would definitely be too rare since it's probably only been used in his book and discussed here on AWAD. [chimination or something like that was the word]
But how 'bout something discussed that was a more used word?
...you know, like a wind that is used to cure pork? Now that's a useful word!
Blowing regards,
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a wind that is used to cure pork?
I am not knowledgeable about weather, and somone who is can tell us more or put me right. Whilst learning more about curing pork than I ever wanted to know, discovering how to make pemmican, which I first recall meeting when reading Swallows and Amazons as a boy, and being reminded about the origin of the word buccaneer, I ended up with the following:
The simoom (or Simoon)is a hot dry Arabian desert wind. The wind that contributed (anecdotally) to the French foreign Legion's suicide rate due to Le Cafard, melancholy brought on by great wastes. The Saharan simoom reaches Italy and southern Europe where it is moist having picked up water across the Mediterranean - it is then termed a sirocco, the wind used to cure pork.
Thanks WW, for leading me into such fascinating and varied territory.
How about an easy one - a blindfold. Deceptive this.
dxb.
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