Kathy over at Bermudaonion's Weblog hosts Wondrous Words Wednesday. If you come across a word (or two) while reading that is new to you and would like to share your new knowledge, then hop over to Kathy's place and link up!
This week I've been reading Shroud of Darkness by E. C. R. Lorac and have found the following:
Noisome:
Context: So they proceeded up the carriageway, while the thickest "London particular" for half a century swirled round them, noisome, poisonous, terrifying: a monster of a fog, strangling all movement in the streets, weighing down the cheerful, terrifying the fearful, dealing death to the frail.
Soignée: Elegant, well-groomed, sophisticated (you would think more of that French I took would have stuck)
Context: She had dark, straight hair, cropped like a man's, very soignée and well brushed, and dark eye with George-Robeyish eyebrows.
Noisome:
1. Having an extremely offensive smell.
2. Disagreeable; unpleasantContext: So they proceeded up the carriageway, while the thickest "London particular" for half a century swirled round them, noisome, poisonous, terrifying: a monster of a fog, strangling all movement in the streets, weighing down the cheerful, terrifying the fearful, dealing death to the frail.
Soignée: Elegant, well-groomed, sophisticated (you would think more of that French I took would have stuck)
Context: She had dark, straight hair, cropped like a man's, very soignée and well brushed, and dark eye with George-Robeyish eyebrows.
Those are both new to me. I would have guessed noisome wrong. I'm going to have to try to remember that word! Thanks for participating.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that noisome would come from noise...
ReplyDeleteFun, Bev -- I am hopeless when it comes to French pronunciation, sadly -- especially unfortunate when reading Christie aloud to my daughter.
ReplyDeleteHere's mine:
http://situationswhereyoumayneedit.blogspot.com/2011/03/wondrous-words-wednesday.html
Soignée!! what a gorgeous word!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting words and all new to me! Here is mine: http://myonlinebookjournal.wordpress.com.
ReplyDeleteI knew ...the second'one. It's the same meaning in French, but not the first one which doesn'tmatch with the idea of "soignée!"
ReplyDeleteLike the second word. Bet it's very pretty when pronounced.
ReplyDeleteI just learned two new words, thanks!
ReplyDeleteGreat words. I know I've seen noisome before and I suspect I guessed wrong about what it meant!
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