It certainly does. A quick check at dictionary.com reveals that "Armoire" (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/armoire) originates from ... There you are. If you want to use this word in a story, just don't set it before -- say -- 1675 or so (to give the word time to penetrate into the general vernacular), and you'll be fine. Why am I suggesting 100 years after the word is first recorded? Because it probably took time for the general public to adopt it, that's all.
I, too, thought that the word sounded French. I came across this word in a novel I'm reading written by David Baldacci titled Dream Town - the setting is in early 1950's.
diaspora: a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
Indeed. Speaking as a Jew myself, the Jewish Diaspora refers not to Jews who migrate to Israel, but to that horrific time when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD and forced the vast majority of Jews into exile, or enslaved them. Since that time, no Jew was allowed to migrate back to Israel until the late 19th century, when a small community bought some land from the Ottoman Turks (who ruled the region at the time) and created the first Jewish village in the place since Roman times. (I could say much more, but I'd rather not get into the whole political mess after that)
syzygy /sĭz′ə-jē/ noun Either of two points in the orbit of a solar system body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun. Either of two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight line with the sun and Earth. The configuration of the sun, the moon, and Earth lying in a straight line.
raclette: a Swiss dish, also popular in the other Alpine countries, based on heating cheese and scraping off the melted part, then typically served with boiled potatoes.
I learned a new word yesterday. It was a really great word too. In fact, when I saw it the first thought I had was; "man, that will make a great word to share on the 'What New Word Did You Learn Today' thread." It was THAT good.... Now I cannot remember what the word was...
sesquipedalian - Sesquipedalian can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume it was smart, even if they don’t really know what it was about because they can’t understand the words. Each of those long words is referred to as a sesquipedalia. Antidisestablishmentarianism is a sesquipedalia: in fact it’s the longest non-coined and nontechnical word in the English language.
On Sesame Street, Adam Sandler was trying to come up with a word that rhymed with Elmo, and said "Sesquipedalian." I thought he was just making up gibberish. (I remember because I put the song on my kid's music player and heard it a lot through his toddler years.)
I beg to differ. Antidisestablishmentarianism is a simple word, if you break it down into parts: anti-dis-establishment-arianism. So, it simply means "wanting to be against the people who are against the establishment". To put it even more simply, it means "political conservatism". Instead of making up words like "bell-mo" and "spell-mo", Adam could have used Malmö, one of the largest cities in Sweden.
That's not what it means at all, though. The establish part doesn't refer to the establishment in general, but to an established church, i.e. a state having an official church. So disestablishmentarianism refers to a movement to disestablish a church, i.e. make the official state church no longer be the official state church. And if some people are attempting to do that, then the movement to oppose them and keep the established church is antidisestablishmentarianism.
No, it refers to people in 19th century Britain who opposed the disestablishment of the English church
But if you were actively against those groups (as opposed to just being in favour of disestablishmentarianism), would that not be antiantidisestablishmentarianism?
