5 June 2017

funicular

[fyoo-nik-yuh-ler]

adjective

1. of or relating to a rope or cord, or its tension.
2. worked by a rope or the like.
noun
3. funicular railway.

Origin of funicular

Latin
1655-1665; Latin fūnicul(us) (see funiculus ) + -ar1

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Examples from the Web for funicular

Contemporary Examples

What was the thinking behind using models for the funicular that runs up to the hotel—and for the first shots of the hotel itself?
The Look of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Andrew Romano
March 6, 2014

Historical Examples

These were the days before the funicular from Stresa, when one trudged up a rude path through the chestnuts and walnuts.
Marriage
H. G. Wells

They start along the terrace toward the station of the funicular railway.
A Book of Burlesques
H. L. Mencken

Anagram

incur a flu
a runic flu

Today’s quote

The frog in the well knows not of the great ocean.

– Japanese proverb

On this day

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5 June 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential candidate and brother of JFK, shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian-born, Jordanian citizen. Kennedy died the following day. In an interview with David Frost in 1989, Sirhan stated that he opposed Kennedy’s support of Israel and plan to send 50 bombers to Israel to ‘obviously do harm to the Palestinians’. Sirhan was initially sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison.

5 June 1989 – the ‘Tank Man’ halts a column of Chinese tanks in Beijing for more than half an hour, following protests in Tiananmen Square.

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