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A.Word.A.Day--titian![]() ![]() This week's theme: eponyms -- words coined after someone. titian (TISH-uhn) noun A bright reddish or golden auburn color. [After 16th century Italian painter Titian, from the frequent use of the color (especially for the hair) in his paintings.] See more usage examples of titian in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The titian-haired sleuth (Nancy Drew) has left her mark on American womanhood for generations now." Marjorie Kehe; The Titian-haired Sleuth All American Girls Love; The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Oct 4, 2005.
X-BonusThe ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. -Brendan Gill, writer and preservationist (1914-1997) |
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