;Posted on 10/25/2016 6:08:03 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
LOUCHE [loohsh]
adjective
A louche person, or louche conduct, is devious. perverse, untrustworthy, sinister.
Louche was taken over from the French as is. In French its literal meaning is "squint eyed," but the French use it in a figurative sense to describe a person or behavior of dubious character, equivocal, disreputable, shifty. shady, or more informally, fishy.
Like Caesar's wife who "must be above suspicion," Caesar divorced Pompeia because her name came up in an accusation against a public figure. Her part in the infamy was non existent.
Need I describe Hillary with a life time of salacious and criminal baggage as a louche candidate? She defines the term.
Perhaps we could find a paint, maybe a poor shade of brown, and we could call it "LOUCHE".. Then we could paint the White Hut, Senate and other deserving buildings in Washington with our new paint to show our total discussed with our government...
:)
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I like the brown, a particularly obnoxious shade, called louche. Most appropriate to paint government orifices this color.
A wonderful collection of glass eyes, most appropriate for our glassy eyed crooked candidate.
We have house guests from California and will be going to Bully Hill Winery for wine tasting and lunch. A little overcast, and the leaves are a week past prime, but still beautiful out. It will be a nice reprieve from the election news.
I actually have a per-ban bottle (1920’s)? On Pernod absinthe.
I would expect some amusing poetry today with the obvious rhyme with this word.
A fellow in old Marrikoosh
Once observed as he read a cartouche
"That Pharoah it shows
Holds a bag and a hose
And to mention the contents is louche."
There. Squeaky clean.
Verry nice. Before it was legalized.
I'm using the word in a poem about Hillary, but I can't think of a single word that rhymes with 'louche'...
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