20 January 2018

carapace

[kar-uh-peys]

noun

1. a bony or chitinous shield, test, or shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of an animal, as of a turtle.

Origin of carapace Expand

French, Spanish
1830-1840; < French < Spanish carapacho, of obscure origin

Related forms

carapaced, adjective
carapacial [kar-uh-pey-shuh l] (Show IPA), adjective

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Examples from the Web for carapace

Contemporary Examples

I walked back to my desk, keeping the satisfaction locked tight within a carapace of steely unconcern, and took in the scene.
Wall Street Bonuses Tumble, But Bankers Have Nowhere to Go
Aaron Timms
March 2, 2012

It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness.
The GOP’s Leading Crank
Michael Tomasky
August 30, 2011

Ian McEwan: Well, I think one way… I think you have to develop a carapace of boringness.
Hanging Out with Ian McEwan: Full Transcript
The Daily Beast Video
April 14, 2010

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Today’s quote

Credibility is someone else’s idea of what I should be doing.

– Paul Stanley

On this day

20 January – Penguin Awareness Day.

20 January 1952 – birth of Stanley Harvey Esien, better known as Paul Stanley, singer and guitarist in glam rock band, Kiss.

20 January 1982 – It was the chomp heard around the world, when Ozzy Osbourne, The Prince of Darkness, bit the head off a bat while performing on stage in Des Moines, Iowa. A fan had thrown a bat on stage. Ozzy claims he thought it was rubber, but found out the hard way, that it was, in fact, a real bat. He was taken to hospital and given rabies shots. This follows on from an incident in 1981, when Ozzy bit the head off a dove after signing his first solo record deal … as you do … Word has it that Ozzy had planned to release a number of doves as a symbol of peace, but was drunk and felt one of the doves could do with a trim … which didn’t work out too well for the dove. There is no truth in the rumour that the Prince song, ‘When Doves Cry’ is about the incident.