30 April 2013

bespoke

[bih-spohk]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of bespeak.

adjective

2. (British)
a. (of clothes) made to individual order; custom-made: a bespoke jacket.
b. making or selling such clothes: a bespoke tailor.
3. Older Use. engaged to be married; spoken for.

Origin:
1745–55 for definition 2

Today’s aphorism

Arguments are to be avoided – they are always vulgar and often convincing.

– Oscar Wilde

On this day

30 April – International Jazz Day.

30 April 1945 – Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Germany.