ADAM AND EVE

PRONUNCIATION: (AD-uhm uhn/uhnd EEV)

MEANING: noun:
1. A beginning.
2. A set of ancestors or founders.

ETYMOLOGY: After the first humans in the Biblical account. Earliest documented use: 1789. See also: Adam’s ale and adamite.
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A DAY AND EVE - a roundabout way of transmitting that "the evening and the morning were the [nth] day", where n is an integer from 1 to 7 inclusive

ALAMAND EVE - part of last night's Square-dancing party

MADAM AND EVE - a very old, very small brothel