My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with--or shall we say not absolutely confident I know the exact meaning of, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is bole (noun): main woody trunk of a tree--from its base up to the first branches.
Between the boles bordering the main walk the earth was dry and flaky with the leaf-mold of centuries. (Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers)
From the context, I was expecting it to be a type of tree (other types had been named previously), not what I consider to just be the the trunk of the tree.
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is bole (noun): main woody trunk of a tree--from its base up to the first branches.
Between the boles bordering the main walk the earth was dry and flaky with the leaf-mold of centuries. (Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers)
From the context, I was expecting it to be a type of tree (other types had been named previously), not what I consider to just be the the trunk of the tree.
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