Today's Word "rubicund"
Inclining to redness
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Published in Vocabulary
rubicund \ROO-bih-kund\ (adjective) - Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
"But the rubicund bald colonel, more rubicund after wine, most rubicund now the Marsala was going, snatched her attention..." - D.H. Lawrence, 'Aaron's Rod'
Rubicund comes from Latin rubicundus, "red, ruddy," from rubere, "to be red."
