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Word For The Day, Thursday, April 23, 2015-- pannier
Posted on 04/23/2015 5:32:46 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Thursday, April 23, 2015-- pannier
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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".
pannier [pan-yer, -ee-er]
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noun
1. a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
2. a basket for carrying on a person's back, or one of a pair to be slung across the back of a beast of burden.
3. a similar type of bag, usually one of a pair, fastened over a bicycle's rear wheel.
4. (on a dress, skirt, etc.) a puffed arrangement of drapery at the hips.
5. an oval framework formerly used for distending the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips.
Origin: 1250-1300: from Old French panier, from Latin pānārium basket for bread, from pānis bread
Related forms
panniered, adjective
unpanniered, adjective
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Since Obama is taking us to Hell in a hand basket, I am in the market for a very large pannier so I dont run out of supplies on the way there.
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:33:47 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Thursday Word for the Day Ping!
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:33:50 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Hillary is going to have to run for office weighed down by the foreign bribes which fill her pannier.
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:35:34 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: tioga
Good morning, Ti. You're first!
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:40:50 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: BenLurkin
Along with the bribes, Hillary's pannier holds Obama's balls and his little dog too.
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:41:56 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: BenLurkin
A+++
Yes, Mrs. Clinton is weighed down by many things, most of which are ignored and/or overlooked by a compliant media and her hordes of low-information voters, many of whom are not only brain-dead but actually dead.
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:43:11 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: Pollster1
A+++++
Perfect! That is just too, too (Toto?) good!
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:44:44 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
A pannier of troubles follow Marie
From disaster to disaster she does flee
Whenever she Harf-ed
All of us barfed
Now a man replaces her as she wails “woe is me”.
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:54:41 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: Pollster1
Bill’s balls are still in play, though.
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:55:57 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
pannier? I love those cookies!
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:00:58 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"Those are not my hips, merely my undercover panniers for my iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, and The Clinton Family Foundation confidential donor lists...and a few travel flasks."
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:02:14 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools wnho cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: tioga
A++++
It is fortunate, limerick-wise, that Harf rhymes with barf. has she been replaced permanently or do they just want her to pass her High School Equivalency test?
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:05:29 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: All
My first guess was a courtly dress designed w/ panniers.
18TH CENTURY COURT DRESS w/ PANNIERS--
designed by Isabelle De Borchgrave--made of paper.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:05:32 AM PDT
by
Liz
(Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
To: tioga
Maybe not. He seems partial to cigars, perhaps because Hillary can’t take those from him.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:07:05 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Covenantor
A+++++
Really, really funny! I wonder if she kept the Rose Law Firm files hidden there until the statute of limitations kicked in.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:07:26 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: Liz
A+++++
Excellent example. I wasn’t sure what one of those would look like, even though it was listed under the minor definitions. Nice work!
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:08:50 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
To: Covenantor
Hillary arrives in designer dress patterned after crack house wallpaper.
Will receive the coveted Gold-plated Knitting Needles statuette:
Cited as the Democrat candidate "Most Likely to Unravel."
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:08:56 AM PDT
by
Liz
(Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
America is being taken to purgatory in a pannier.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:09:53 AM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
(Enormous wealth without God, something's bound to go wrong here.)
To: xsmommy
Is that the generic name or a brand name?
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:12:40 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
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