This week’s theme
Well-traveled words

This week’s words
aubade
prosopography
kurbash
postiche
safari

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PRONUNCIATION:

(KUHR/KOOR-bash)

MEANING:

noun: A whip, especially one made of hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide.
verb tr.: To whip with a kurbash.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Arabic kurbaj, from Turkish kırbaç. Earliest documented use: 1814.

USAGE:

“The officer was a lithe, dark woman marked by two ostrich plumes, and a leather kurbash hung on her left wrist.”
Clayton Emery; Star of Cursrah; Wizards of the Coast; 1999.

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