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Word of the Day for Thursday, March 19, 2009florid \FLOR-id\, adjective: 1. Flushed with red; of a lively reddish color. The Reverend Mr Kidney is a short round bowlegged man with black muttonchop whiskers and a florid face, like a pomegranate, into which he has poured a great quantity of brandy and lesser amounts of whisky and claret. Even though avant-garde attacks on the Victorian bourgeoisie were florid in rhetoric, deficient in evidence, and malicious in intent, it does not follow that they had no objective grounds. Many were florid and overweight, too bulkily dressed and perspiring freely. The journalist Frank Crane would later glorify the . . . factory in florid prose as "a sermon in steel and glass," a "Temple of Work" in which machinery rather than an organ provided the music and the choir "was the glad laughter of happy workers." Florid comes from Latin floridus, "flowery," from flos, flor-, "flower." | |||||||||
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