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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--El Dorado This week's theme: words with built-in definite articles. El Dorado (el duh-RAH-doh) noun A place offering fabulous wealth or opportunity. [From Spanish, literally, the gilded one. After a legendary place in South America sought for its gold by 16th century explorers.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Although I felt somewhat excluded the last few years, I did appreciate seeing people parade their wealth as if they were financial conquistadors in a stock market El Dorado." Harvey Lieberman; I Told You So? Well, Not Exactly; The New York Times, Apr 29, 2001. X-Bonus A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. -Pablo Picasso, artist and sculptor (1881-1973)

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