Tag: clothing
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“Milliner”: it’s literally from Milan
A fancy word for fancy hats owing to Milanese merchants selling fancy wares. Fancy that!
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A country, a hat, a palindrome – “Panama”!
What do rum and capybaras have in common? Why, the origin of “Panama.”
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bracket
Etymologists are wary of March Madness. No, it’s not the term bracketology, describing the art, science, and ritual of filling out one’s tournament bracket, which word induces many a cringe. (I, for one, find it to be a perfectly fine coinage.) It’s the inevitable utterance, “There goes my bracket,” issued in resignation when an upset fells…
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socks & cardinals
Fast Mash Sock, attested as socc as far back as 725, is from the Latin, soccus, meaning “slipper,” which may come from a yet more Ancient Greek word for some type of early footwear Cardinal, as in “fundamental” and numbers, comes from Latin’s cardo (hinge) The adjective form of the noun, cardinalis, gave us the name for the Catholic…
Mashed Radish 