This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
cherubic
nidus
pelagic
rutilant
tatterdemalion

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ROOT-uh-luhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Glowing, shining, or glittering with a red or golden light.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin rutilant, present participle of rutilare (to glow red), from rutilus (reddish). Earliest documented use: 1460.

USAGE:

“[Jerome Savary’s] shows are so richly staged and choreographed that each time you blink you miss some stage action, and so musically rutilant that you leave the theater slightly dazed.”
Katherine Knorr; A swingin’ Paris of the 40’s; International Herald Tribune (Paris, France); Nov 26, 2003.

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