This week’s theme
Toponyms

This week’s words
Capuan
canterbury
helotage
Elysium
Canaan

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PRONUNCIATION:

(KAN-tuhr-ber-ee)

MEANING:

noun: A rack with open top and slatted partitions for magazines, sheet music, documents, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Canterbury, UK. It’s said that a bishop of Canterbury first ordered this piece of furniture. Earliest documented use: 1803. Some other words with Canterbury connections are canter and Canterbury tale.

USAGE:

“Mr. Chadwick pored over stacks of yellowed sheet music his mother had kept in a rosewood Canterbury.”
Mavis Gallant; Varieties of Exile; New York Review of Books; 2003.

See more usage examples of canterbury in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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