

Jan 6, 2015 This week’s theme

Words relating to books



This week’s words

bildungsroman

longueur

peripeteia

locus classicus

litterateur



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longueur PRONUNCIATION: (long-GUHR)

MEANING: noun: A long and dull passage in a work of literature.

ETYMOLOGY: From French longueur (length), from Latin longus (long). Ultimately from the Indo-European root del- (long), which also gave us lounge, lunge, linger, longitude, long, belong, and along. Earliest documented use: 1791.

USAGE:

Euan Ferguson; And Another Thing; The Observer (London, UK); Oct 11, 2009.



See more usage examples of “Even the sainted Douglas Adams wasn’t above the occasional infuriatingly indulgent longueur, such as basing the whole of his least good book on an extended metaphor involving cricket.”Euan Ferguson; And Another Thing;(London, UK); Oct 11, 2009.See more usage examples of longueur in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth. -Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)





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