Word of the week
As I wended my way through my copy of Alan Bennett's Untold Stories this week I encountered the word "enfilade" which I am reliably informed means either a "volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end" or a "suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other". In order to help it settle in the word section of my brain, in a place where I have the slightest chance of retrieving it when needed, I have decided that as part of this new and ongoing feature, I will supply (for my own benefit) a sentence incorporating the word of the week.
"An enfilade of piss arced from behind the bush into a noisy puddle beneath the streetlight".
2 comments:
I must say I think this word of the week thing is a brilliant idea and one that I hope we shall see becoming a regular feature.
Might I add that I may be wrong here, but wouldn't the aforementioned stream of piss need to be travelling in a straight line in order for it to be described as an enfilade rather than an arc?
I'm looking forward to the next one.
Getting my urine to travel in a straight line is provign tricky.
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