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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--clinquant I love words. It's something I gave up my career in software for. Every morning I can't wait to wake up and start exploring words and write about them. I have been doing it for 12 years now and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else. Having said that, there are times when I feel I have to be ready to feed this beast -- A.Word.A.Day -- week after week after week. It opens its hungry maw every Monday and I had better be ready with another serving of juicy, delicious words. I do as best as I can to come up with new recipes, new arrangements, new flavors. There are times, however, when I just have to reach into my grab-bag of loose words and offer them while I think of a new topic. It's one of those weeks. Enjoy this medley of words while I get back to the word lab putting finishing touches to next week's material. clinquant (KLING-kuhnt) adjective Glittering, especially with gold or tinsel. noun Tinsel; glitter. [From French, present participle of obsolete clinquer (to clink), from Dutch klinken (to clink).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "And she looked like a queen as she stood at the altar in her glittering tiara, her ivory jacket clinquant with sequins." Gerald M. Carbone; To Honor And Cherish; Providence Journal (Rhode Island); Nov 20, 2005. X-Bonus How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. -Sophocles, (495-405 BCE)

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