LOL!! This would have been the word for Friday.
Word of the Day for Friday July 26, 2002:
peregrination \pehr-uh-gruh-NAY-shun\, noun:
A traveling from place to place; a wandering.
He left Parma in the family camper-van, abandoning it in a
Milan car-park to avoid its being identified at border
controls before setting off on a peregrination through
Switzerland, France, London, Canada, New York and
eventually back to London.
--Paddy Agnew, "Incident leads to crime that has baffled
police," [1]Irish Times, December 12, 1998
In 1890, Lafcadio Hearn settled in Japan after a lifetime
of restless, melancholy peregrination.
--Francine Prose, "Modern Geisha," [2]New York Times, April
23, 2000
He ventures out in his pajamas and makes a dreamlike
peregrination through the town's deserted streets.
--Richard Eder, "Puck-ish Ramblings in Midsummer Dreams,"
[3]New York Times, May 18, 2000
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Peregrination comes from Latin peregrinatio, from peregrinari,
"to stay or travel in foreign countries," from peregre, "in a
foreign country, abroad," from per, "through" + ager, "land." |
