Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--incarnadine

Look at that list of words derived from the root!
I think I'll write a letter to the WordSmith editors
and point them to Jane's sublime song.

--- Wordsmith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:02:57 -0400
> From: Wordsmith <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: A.Word.A.Day--incarnadine
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> incarnadine (in-KAHR-nuh-dyn) adjective
> 
>    Flesh-colored; blood-red.
> 
> noun
> 
>    An incarnadine color.
> 
> verb tr.
> 
>    To make incarnadine.
> 
> [Via French and Italian from Latin caro, (flesh).
> Ultimately from
> Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the
> source of words
> such as skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage,
> carnivorous,
> carnation, sharp, and scrape.]
> 
> Today's word in Visual Thesaurus:
> http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=incarnadine
> 
>   "They wait outside the temple, on steps
> incarnadine with ministerial
>    sacrifice."
>    Simon Jenkins; It's the Voters Wot Win It; The
> Times (London, UK);
>    Mar 19, 1997.
> 
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