(For Win Pearls! see yesterday's entry)
Since it's Friday, and since it's a gorgeous, sunny May day (okay, in
my head it is; I live in New England and I'm about to build an ark),
it's time to think about kicking off the weekend.
If you're like many people, you'll down a margarita or four over a
plate of nachos and great conversation (for the first margarita, at
least). While you're drinking and conversing, here's a little bit of
trivia to impress your friends, and that hot guy from Purchasing
you've had your eye on: Margarita, the tequila cocktail, is named
after Margarita, the Spanish form of the name Margaret, which means
pearl.
Here's your assignment for tonight: Oh-so-casually slip the adjective
margaritaceous into converation. It comes to us today from our friends
at A Word A Day and means 'pearly'.
Here it is used in a pre-cocktail hour sentence: "The mesial band has
something of a margaritaceous sheen, but it is very slight and dull."
--Charles James Stewart Bethune, et al; The Canadian Entomologist;
1868.
For you wordsmiths, check out http://wordsmith.org/awad. Improve your
vocabulary and be entertained in one shot. Fun!
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