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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Defenestration
Thanks to my coworker A, I learned a new word today:
de·fen·es·tra·tion
[
dee-fen-
uh
-
strey
-sh
uh-
n
]
noun
the
act
of
throwing
a
thing
or
especially
a
person
out
of
a
window:
the
defenestration
of
the
commissioners
at
Prague.
Origin:
1610–20;
de-
+
Latin
fenestr
(
a
)
window
+
-ation
There is even a lego defenestration:
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