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Oct 10, 2008

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serein

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with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(suh-RAN [the second syllable is nasal])

MEANING:

noun: Fine rain falling from an apparently cloudless sky, typically observed after sunset.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French serein, from Old French serain (evening), from Latin serum (evening), from serus (late).

USAGE:

"She must have caught a chill from the serein, that's all!"
Raphael Confiant; Mamzelle Dragonfly; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2000.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Journalism is publishing what someone doesn't want us to know, the rest is propaganda. -Horacio Verbitsky, journalist (b. 1942)

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