This week’s theme
Words derived from metals

This week’s words
brazen
auricomous
philargyry
tinpot
lead balloon

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(au-RI-kuh-muhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Relating to golden hair.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin auricomus, from aurum (gold) + coma (hair). Earliest documented use: 1864.

USAGE:

“The amber-haired women -- palpably indebted to auricomous fluids for the colour of their tresses -- objected to the dark burnished gold of Violet Tempest’s hair.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Vixen; Maxwell; 1879.

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