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Word of the Day for Sunday, October 5, 2008rubicund \ROO-bih-kund\, adjective: Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. The men are second cousins, around forty, resembling each other not very much, one taller and leaner, less rubicund than the other, who has just returned from California. Rubicund from his cocktail, big, broad, lustrous with power, he exuded what Walter Pater called the "charm of an exquisite character, felt in some way to be inseparable from his person." Rubicund comes from Latin rubicundus, "red, ruddy," from rubere, "to be red." | |||||||||
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