now if this could be combined with dictionaraoke...

[oiran]

first seen on stone_princess's LJ...

Merriam-Webster doesn't know what to do with me:

1. velvetlike
2. Viollet-le-Duc
3. flapdoodles
4. flowcharts
5. flapdoodle
6. fair-traded
7. flowcharting
8. valuelessness
9. flowchartings
10. footholds


Flapdoodles and flowcharts?

But I was very excited about Viollet-Le-Duc, because I thought it was Violet Leduc for a second. French, female, technically bisexual, ridiculously neurotic and articulate author of two of my favorite books, Ravages and Le Batard, which I own in lurid-covered 70s paperback editions. And because I insist on sharing my obsessions with anyone who will listen, here's some info: Violet Leduc

However, Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc is pretty interesting in his own right: the "savior of architecture," Dubbed the savior of Notre Dame for his exquisite restoration of the great cathedral, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc led the firm that restored countless French churches and chateaux and rebuilt the Hotel de Ville in Paris. Viollet-le-Duc was appointed in the 1840s to head the Office of Historic Monuments. He restored Notre Dame fifty years after the French revolution nearly destroyed it as well as the cathedrals of Amiens and Saint-Denis, the cities of Avignon and Carcasonne, and numerous city halls and chateaux. He was awarded a medal by an international jury for his Lausanne Cathedral restoration designs at the 1872 Vienna World Exposition. He has become a verb in modern French, as to Viollet-le-Duc means to heavily restore an ancient structure.

Comments

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

Flapdoodles and Flowcharts. Sounds like a good title.

Or a band name.

Re:

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Hee! A band! And they'd dress like muppets and play Nursery!Punk!

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

According to an enormous unabridged dictionary at a place I once worked, there's a verb in English, grimthorpe, which means "to restore a building in a style inconsistent with the original."

I did some research later and decided it must derive from Lord Grimthorpe, a Victorian architect. Like Viollet-Le-Duc, he also restored a cathedral, St. Albans, but his efforts were called "more enthusiastic than talented." In fact, a tour guide to St. Stephen's Church reads, "St Stephen's is the only one of St Albans' old churches to escape restoration by Lord Grimthorpe." Poor man. But I think he designed Big Ben's clock, unless I'm confusing him with someone else.

[dolimir-k.livejournal.com]

Flapdoodles????

Flapdoodles????

Okay, I hurt myself laughing and my nose is still tingly. Thank God I wasn't drinking anything.

Now my cat is looking at me all weird!