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Aug 12, 2022
This week’s themeWords coined after animals This week’s words cynical lemming serpentine jackrabbit chevachee 
Jalal ad-Din Khwarazmshah crossing the rapid Indus River, escaping Genghis Khan and his army
Painting from History of Abul-Khayr Khan by Mas’ud bin Osmani Kuhistani, 1540s This week’s comments AWADmail 1050 Next week’s theme Words that aren't what they appear to be 
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with Anu Gargchevachee
PRONUNCIATION:
(shuh-vuh-CHEE/SHAY)
MEANING:
noun: An expedition, raid, or campaign.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French chevauchée (ride), from cheval (horse), from Latin caballus
(horse). Earliest documented use: 1380.
USAGE:
“Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, brings a secret weapon with him
today. It, or rather she, is his mother-in-law. ... This makes it a unique
chevachee in the long history of Anglo-French ententes cordiales and not
so cordiales.” Blair Force One; The Times (London, UK); Feb 16, 2002. “The word chevachee is the most apt way of describing the Mongol raiding tactics in 1211, for it is an act of plundering on a relentless and extensive scale.” James Waterson; Defending Heaven; Pen & Sword Books; 2013. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth,
would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die
for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that
boys must die. -Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist (12 Aug 1876-1958)
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