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Jul 8, 2025
This week’s themeWords related to colors This week’s words festucine ![]() ![]()
A festucine horse: Belarusian folk art
Photo: Wikimedia
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with Anu Gargfestucine
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Of a pale yellow or straw-like color.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin festuca (stalk, straw). Earliest documented use: 1646.
USAGE:
“The growing tailings pond ... glittered festucine yellow in the morning light.” Malcolm Crawford; Sheila’s Tree; iUniverse; 2004. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the
love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the
people. -Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul 1621-1695)
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