30 July 2016
gaucherie
[goh-shuh-ree; French gohshuh-ree]
noun, plural gaucheries [goh-shuh-reez; French gohshuh-ree] (Show IPA)
1. lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
2. an act, movement, etc., that is socially graceless, awkward, or tactless.
Origin of gaucherie
French
1790-1800; < French; see gauche, -ery
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Examples from the Web for gaucherie
Historical Examples
“Certainly not,” stammered I, somewhat ashamed at my gaucherie.
The Rifle Rangers
Captain Mayne Reid
Her gaucherie was painful to her and evident and very dear to the man perceiving it.
Under the Law
Edwina Stanton Babcock
I should then be certain that she extenuated my gaucherie at her party, whether I got speech with her or no.
She and I, Volume 1
John Conroy Hutcheson
Anagram
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Today’s aphorism
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
– Richard Gere
On this day
30 July 1626 – earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills 70,000 people.
30 July 1818 – birthday of Emily Bronte, author of the novel, ‘Wuthering Heights‘. Died 19 December 1848.
30 July 1863 – birthday of Henry Ford, American industrialist and car maker. Died 7 April 1947.
30 July 1881 – birth of Smedley Butler, U.S. Marine Corp Major-General. He received 19 medals, five of which were for bravery. He twice received the Medal of Honor. Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in history. Nonetheless, he was an outspoken critic of war and military actions. He wrote a book called ‘War is a Racket’, which exposed the links between the military and industry, in which he stated that business interests directly benefit from warfare. Butler wrote a summary of the book, which stated: ‘War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes‘. He died on 21 June 1940.
30 July 1898 – W.K. Kellogg invents cornflakes.
30 July 1956 – the United States officially adopts ‘In God We Trust’ as the national motto.
30 July 1958 – birthday of Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter. In 1978, she had a hit song with ‘Wuthering Heights‘, a song about the novel of the same name which was written by Emily Bronte (whose birthday is also today). She followed this up with a number of other hits, including ‘Babooshka‘ and ‘The Man with the Child in His Eyes‘.
30 July 1969 – birthday of Simon Baker, Australian actor. Stars in the TV series, ‘The Mentalist‘.