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Tikkiee -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 10:45:42 AM)
quote: Accensor The person who lights the candles "Pasquinade"

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 10:50:23 AM)
Ya got me...how about a hint?

Tikkiee -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 10:55:13 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bandit25 Ya got me...how about a hint? Think in terms of literature [;)]

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:10:08 AM)
Ok...the only thing I can think of is a harlequin...like a buffoon, but that's not literature

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:13:18 AM)
so belonging to(ade) the buffoonish literature?

Tikkiee -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:17:06 AM)
For bandit [:)] This link will not give the actual definition, but it gives insight into the word. Skip the link if you don't want the hint. http://60.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PA/PASQUINADE.htm

Tikkiee -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:18:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bandit25 so belonging to(ade) the buffoonish literature? Baffoonish literature. LMAO, it could be construed in that manner [:)]

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:25:44 AM)
So kind of a satire as the link said lampoon...is that right?

Tikkiee -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:28:31 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bandit25 So kind of a satire as the link said lampoon...is that right? Yes. Its a satirical writing that is put in pubic display. Your turn [:D]

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:31:01 AM)
I'm sure you'll get this one in about a minute...Jalousie

Tikkiee -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:35:07 AM)
quote: Jalousie that is a shutter or a blind "Vacuity" ( I absolutly love this word lol )

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 11:57:35 AM)
I know this one...empty...like vacuous let's see now....macrometer

Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 12:16:32 PM)
That's an instrument used to determine the size of something at a distance. Edited to add: Oh, I looked it up and I was wrong. It's an instrument used to determine the DISTANCE of something from the observer. Oops. "Pasquinade" is a lovely word--another eponym. It's from "Pasquino," a statue in Rome where people posted public lampoons. Next one..."inwit"

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 12:23:30 PM)
Inwit? Are you making this one up? Nitwit I know. Ok, so wit is one's thoughts...hmmm inner thoughts? inward thoughts?

Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 12:34:39 PM)
Close. It's sometimes considered obsolete, but it's a real English word and has been used in the twentieth century. (You people are nailing all the current words right and left, so I thought I had to try an old one to throw a curve atcha.) BIG hint: It's a Middle English word that James Joyce revived. It's part of a set phrase: "agenbite of inwit" (variously spelled).

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 12:37:56 PM)
I admit it...I cheated. I looked it up so I'll take myself out.

murmur -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 12:43:16 PM)
maybe i'm too late (wouldnt be the first time) but i found images of what could be a tabanca...ooposite of what google gave me was links in a language unknown to me...i couldnt read the damn things so i had to go with the visuals!! so, here are the pics : http://images.google.ca/images?hl=fr&q=Tabanca&sa=N&tab=wi

Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 12:50:39 PM)
Very interesting. In Turkish, "tabanca" means "pistol." Who'da thunk it? You learn something new on CM every day. OK, "inwit" means "conscience." "Agenbite of inwit" is "remorse of conscience." Your turn, murmur. If "tabanca" can mean "brokenheartedness," it may as well mean "pistol," too.

murmur -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 1:21:22 PM)
nods alright... Tabernacle

bandit25 -> RE: Word Fight (4/23/2006 1:28:15 PM)
The box in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant

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