Friday 16 July 2021

I wouldn't have guessed this one - maybe I would have thought it meant taking out windows??

 


Defenestration:  The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

 

From the Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler (1979)

1 comment:

  1. I learned it when I learned the English word. In combination with the most famous defenestration. But we don't use that word very often, of course.

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