Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Bucolic
Bucolic indicates something that comes from the country or reminds one of rural life or pastoral pursuits. It is a highly poetic word, given the hardscrabble life that many farmers and other country folk had to endure. It derives from the Greek bous--ox given that a boukolous was an oxherd .
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Pinion
As a noun the pinion is the outermost part of a bird's wing--especially when extended in flight. The verb to pinion (to restrain) comes from this, in that birds that a pinioned have their flight feather tied back or restrained.
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