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A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg
clarion
PRONUNCIATION:
(KLAR-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Loud and clear.
noun: An ancient trumpet used as a signal in war.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin clarion- (trumpet), from clarus (clear). Earliest documented use: around 1384.
USAGE:
"'For survivors, Tullia Zevi was a clarion voice that warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism,' said Elan Steinberg."
Prominent Anti-Fascist Dies Aged 91; Belfast Telegraph (Ireland); Jan 23, 2011.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)
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