Unopened 50 Year Whisky

BIZARRE

Suggested by ... The living next

1. Bravery, courage.

2. Generosity, brilliance, splendor.

3. Colorful exaggeration or embellishment. In painting.

to our custody, The who lives next door loves the word that today I propose , from of bizarre and this in turn Bizzarro Italian : angry. Interestingly, despite its etymology, bravery is a virtue, something like the coalescing substantive values \u200b\u200bsuch as bravery, courage, generosity, brilliance and determination ...

Surprisingly, even taking into account the definitions in DRAE, currently used the words bizarre and bravery to refer to something strange, quirky, unusual, etc ... This is only correct in certain contexts, as reflected in the third meaning-

Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of doubt (2005) comments: bizarre-war. in English means 'brave, courageous', 'comes the captain Andres Cuevas, a gallant soldier in command of a platoon "(Matos Night [Cuba 2002]) and' lucid, airy ',' Your most bizarre young and gallant bud than ever "(Luján Mirrors [Esp 1991]). It should be avoided with the sense of "odd or fanciful ', tracing the semantic objectionable bizarre French or English," "It's a bizarre name. "Not when you are born in Sydney and is Australia '(Leyva Piñata [Mex. 1984]). Nor bravery should be used with the sense of 'strangeness or extravagance. "

We leave finally with a piece of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part II, Chapter XXX to illustrate Nuesto term today:

"... The lady was also dressed in green and richly bizarre, that it came transformed gallantry in it. In the left hand carrying a goshawk, signal given to understand Don Quixote, be that a great lady, who was be for all those hunters ... "

to the next word rampant!

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