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BLACKAVISED
Adjective. Archaic (chiefly northern). Mid-18th century.
[from BLACK adjective + French vis face (perhaps originally black-à-vis or black o'vis) + ED.]
Dark-complexioned.
Blackavised is an unusual word in juxtaposing naked English and French so overtly. While it's fallen out of popular usage, it can be found in a number of classics and, in a similar manner to the word 'swarthy' which is used by several dictionaries in defining blackavised, it can describe someone's simmering, sun-kissed complexion, the rugged handsomeness and rough beauty of a person that is rarely indoors.
That's a word that will be on my pages one day!
ReplyDeleteWe honour these words with our pages, Jingles : o )
Delete"Rugged handsomeness and rough beauty of a person that is rarely indoors." I am rarely indoors, as I clean windows, but I have all the blackavisedness of a particularly pallid elderly yoghurt.
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And I'm sure there's a word out there that describes such a complexion beautifully, C.
DeleteI would love to have that kind of completion,
ReplyDeletebut i do not..... i am the type of when the sun hits my body to looking like a well smacked (white) backside.
I've heard the well-smacked bottom look is going to be rear-ly big next season ...
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