From the ArcaMax Publishing, Vocabulary Newsletter:
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Today's Word "favonian"

favonian \fuh-VOH-nee-uhn\ (adjective) - Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

"The sun had a misty glare, the favonian wind blew steadily from the same quarter, and the streets were dismal with uncol- lected refuse." -- Vincent McHugh, 'I Am Thinking of My Darling'

Favonian is derived from Latin Favonius, "the west wind."

This news arrived on: 06/30/2008

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