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Dec 17, 2008
This week's themeToponyms from India This week's words golconda doolally jodhpurs calico tamarind Jodhpur, The Blue City
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with Anu Gargjodhpurs
PRONUNCIATION:
(JOD-puhrz)
MEANING:
noun:
Riding breeches loose above the knees but close-fitting from the knees
to the ankles.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Jodhpur, a city in northwestern India, earlier a princely state.
USAGE:
"One thing is certain. Once he packs up his souperman cape and jockey
jodhpurs, stories about [Campbell Soup CEO] David Johnson will be
traded for years to come."Linda Grant; Stirring it up at Campbell; Fortune (New York); May 13, 1996. See more usage examples of jodhpurs in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
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