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Date Posted: Mon, 11/25/02 7:42am
Author: Steve Russell
Subject: New Words

I got a new word today fairly painlessly, and I thought some other people might want to sub to this service. It's free

Steve


Word of the Day for Monday November 25, 2002

bouleversement \bool-vair-suh-MAWN\, noun:
Complete overthrow; a reversal; a turning upside down.

For the second time in his life Amory had had a complete
bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his
generation.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald, [1]This Side of Paradise

Ian Salisbury had his chance yesterday but he tried too
hard to give the ball a rip on the dry surface and the old
tendency to drop short or overpitch cost 34 from eight
overs either side of tea as Rhodes and McMillan threatened
a bouleversement worthy of the famous England deliverance
against Australia in 1981.
--Christopher Martin-Jenkins, "Gough takes England to
brink," [2]Daily Telegraph, August 10, 1998

It requires a complete bouleversement in your whole
attitude, a process of adjustment that anyone who's been in
this position understands; but you need to go through it.
--"Two years' hard Labour," [3]Independent, July 13, 1996
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Bouleversement comes from French, from Old French bouleverser,
"to overturn," from boule, "ball" (from Latin bulla) + verser,
"to overturn" (from Latin versare, from vertere, "to turn").

References

1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486289990/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
3. http://www.independent.co.uk/


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