I’ve got a new mission in life, or rather a mission for this period of free time I have which I seem to fritter away.
And I digress, yet again. Okay, focus.
I have decided to do the “word of the day” thingie. Y’know where each day, you get a new word and you have to use it in a sentence? Well I shall use it in my post. Yup. And a wholy worthwhile goal it is too. Because I shall have fun creating worthless sentences.
Today’s word is grandee.
When I first saw the word.. a strange image registered in my mind. The image of
Why? Well I saw ‘grande’ meaning those ice blended coffee cup sizes you can only find in Starbucks. And Coffee Bean serves large, medium and small. So in reality I should be putting a pic of a Starbucks ice blended coffee up.. but I love Coffee Bean more. (After all, it’s cheaper).
And then I read the meaning of grandee and my thoughts and musings about its meaning were sooooo far from the truth that I’m still in shock. (It didn’t have anything to do with coffee. How disappointing)
grandee \gran-DEE\, noun:
1. A man of elevated rank or station.
2. In Spain or Portugal, a nobleman of the first rank.
Here’s a sample sentence :
Like Bellow, he is at once a snob and a democrat, a voracious brain and a churning gut, a seminar-room grandee and a barroom brawler.
- A. O. Scott, “Trans-Atlantic Flights,” New York Times, January 31, 1999
And here is my sentence :
I would aspire to be a grandee, if it were not for the fact that I am a female. What would they call a noblewoman of high rank? What would the feminine equivalent of grandee be? Granny?
As usual.. the women are left out.
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The title was a quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe