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fucate

PRONUNCIATION:

(FYOO-kayt)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Artificially colored.
2. Counterfeit; disguised; falsified.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin fucatus, past participle of fucare (to paint), from fucus (rouge, false color). Earliest documented use: 1531.

USAGE:

“A darker shop befits their fucate drugs.”
John Collop; Poesis Rediviva; 1656.
(Quack medicine thrives in the dark.)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. -Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author, reformer, and activist (17 Feb 1879-1958)

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