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perlage

PRONUNCIATION:

(PUHR-lizh/lazh)

MEANING:

noun: The assemblage of bubbles, in a glass of champagne, for example.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French perlage, from perle (pearl). Earliest documented use: 1983.

USAGE:

“He was studying the exact point at which the wave ... its outermost edge trimmed with a delicate perlage ... evaporated into nothingness.”
Alessandro Baricco (translation: Alastair McEwen); Ocean Sea; Knopf; 2000.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -Thomas Edison, inventor (11 Feb 1847-1931)

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