"Word of the Week" is a meme hosted by the Plain-Spoken Pen on Mondays in which we share a word that we find entertaining, enlightening, edifying, or just plain fun to say!
I've been rereading Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King) this past week, and ran across the adjective "recherché". I was able to figure it out from context, but wanted to get a specific definition. One problem, though. . . I was listening to the audiobook, not reading, and I could not figure out how to spell "rare-char-shay"! It took a lot of Googling, and an equal amount of laughter, before I finally came across it.
The audiobook reader is British, so I'm going to have to listen to an American speaker say it before I use it, but it's such a snazzy word that I hope I can remember it!
What about you? Where you familiar with this one? Did you find any good words this week?
I love Laurie King! This is one of those words I've seen written many times. I've taken enough French that I had an idea of how to say it, but it's always possible I could mangle it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI'm having a good time rereading the Russell/Holmes series! I don't think I had ever come across this word before, so it was a treat -- once I found it in the dictionary! XD
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