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cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.
Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [ 1][ 2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower ...
Latin obscenity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses. Words deemed obscene were described as obsc (a)ena (obscene, lewd, unfit for public use), or improba (improper, in poor taste, undignified). Documented obscenities occurred rarely in classical Latin literature, limited to certain types of writing such as ...
July 17, 2024 at 10:47 AM. Selma Blair, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, said she would not have known of her condition without getting sober. The actress' "lowest point" was a ...
TODAY Hoda Kotb’s Today cohosts celebrated the anchor’s 60th birthday by highlighting the positive impact she’s had on people’s lives. During the second hour of Today’s Monday, August 12 ...
The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise, [ 1] often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Thus, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description ...
Matt Damon feels for Ben Affleck when it comes to life in the spotlight.. In a new podcast interview, Damon, 53, said he “can’t imagine” dealing with the scrutiny his best friend Affleck, 51 ...
However, Tennov and others considered limerence as a synonym with romantic love [6] [7] [8] [10] [12] and others in peer-reviewed material suggest that Tennov's estimate is a normal duration of romantic love. [12] Still others suggest that "the biogenetic sourcing of limerence determines its limitation, ordinarily, to a two-year span". [92]