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at the other end of the scale in size from a pimento paddle is a peel-- (M-W10th 3rd meaning of peel)
pizza lover's lovers know a peel-- as do bread bakers.. 5 foot one are common in NY pizzarias, but some bakeries have 8 and 10 foot ones.. and watching the bakers use a long peel--its an art in it self!
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Yes, the spelling is correct, even if we write it in just one word.
Do you know that the correct traslation is not "crescent moon", but "half moon"?
You reminded me a saying
luna crescente, gobba a ponente
luna calante, gobba a levante
crescent moon, hump ( looking) west
decrescent moon, hump (looking)east.
But it works just in the northern emisphere!
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emanuela: Many thanks for...
una crescente, gobba a ponente
luna calante, gobba a levante...
I heard this expression about 35 years ago--one time. I regretted weeks later not having written it down. Over the years I have kept an eye open in hopes that it would one day fall my way again. Today it has fallen with a sweet cadence. I probably would have posed the question here on the WAD board, but you've come through serendipitously.
How do you pronounce it? If you have a moment to spell it out, I would be very grateful. I'll go ahead and take a jab at it, and mebbe you could correct where needed, hopefully not every single syllable: (ay = long a)
OON-ah cray-CHAYN-tay, GAHB-bah ah poh-NAYN-tay
LOO-nah cah-LAHN-tay, GAHB-bah ah lay-VAHN-tay
Best regards,
MM MezzaMoon, WW upside-down
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the castle! (I wanted to post this on the Castle Rock thread, but it looked pretty dead...so I'll post it here.)
We know epicureans, but I'd not seen these words till tonight reading through some dictionaries. Can't remember where I found them...
Epulary (a.) Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet.
Epulation (n.) A feasting or feast; banquet.
Now these are great Scrabble words if you can get away with playing pul, the basic monetary unit of Afghanistan, or pula, the basic monetary unit of Botswana. Not sure how many puls or pulas you'd have to pay in either country for an epulation.... detest math; every day is a good day because I'm not in a math class
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I also am coming late to this thread, so not much left to rhapsodize about. I do like the expression 'ricer' used most often, altho not exclusively, for potatoes. (I believe it can also be used for spaetzle.)
There are some words for food which I like to hear as much as I like to eat. In place of our clumpy English word 'eggplant', the French have 'aubergine' and the Italians 'melanzana'. The pasta which we call 'bowties' is 'farfalle' (butterflies) in Italian. That reminds me of one of my favorite Italian words (which has nothing to do with the subject at hand, but I have to mention it) 'pipistrella', the word for 'bat' (the kind that flies around). I have a theory that if we had as beautiful a word for the creature, it would not have such a bad rep. Come to think of it, you might get children to eat eggplant if you called it aubergine.
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Said the fork to the spoon, "Who was that ladle I saw you with last night?"
"That was no ladle, that was my knife."
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pizza lover's lovers know a peel--
nice one! _ I know the thing you mean but had never heard the name for it; thank you, of troy.
It occurs to me that one of our local bakeries, Bell's, makes pizzas;
so I suppose the instrument they use to remove them from the oven is a peel of Bell's!
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Rhuby--
And those who study the rhythmic and clanging peel of Bell's, are cam-panologists?
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Spatula is one of those words primed for a stock split. Now defined as "a small implement having a broad, flat, flexible blade that is used to mix, spread, or lift material," http://www.bartleby.com/61/2/S0610200.html, the term now ( currently, at this point in time, in the present moment) encompasses what have become two distinct tools: the rigid, horizontal spatula used to lift; and the flexible, vertical spatula used to scrape. Nominations are now open for distinct terms for these two tools.
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Spatula Clark; didn't she record Downtown time back way back?
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