orgulous

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The Word of the Day for October 7 is:=20

orgulous   \OR-gyuh-lus\   adjective
     : proud=20

Example sentence:
          Antoine usually worked with the boutique's most elite clientel=
e and so tended to adopt an orgulous air toward more "ordinary" customer=
s.

Did you know?
          =E2=80=9CIn Troy, there lies the scene. From Isles of Greece /=
 The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf=E2=80=99d, / Have to the po=
rt of Athens sent their ships.=E2=80=9D Thus Shakespeare began the Troja=
n War tale _Troilus and Cressida_, employing =E2=80=9Corgulous,=E2=80=9D=
 a colorful word first adopted in the 13th century from Anglo-French "or=
guillus." After the Bard's day, "orgulous" dropped from sight for 200 ye=
ars; there is no record of its use until it was rejuvenated by the pens =
of Robert Southey and Sir Walter Scott in the early 1800s. Twentieth-cen=
tury writers (including James Joyce and W.H. Auden) continued its renais=
sance, and today "orgulous" is an elegant choice for proud writers every=
where.





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