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Friday June 18, 2004

favonian \fuh-VOH-nee-uhn\ , adjective:
Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

With dusk came cool, favonian breezes.
-- Ed Darack, Wind, Water, Sun

As God said to Adam on one of those favonian edenic days, "Pick a bone, any bone."
-- Norah Labiner, Our Sometime Sister

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Favonian is derived from Latin Favonius, "the west wind."

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Word of the Day ArchiveFriday June 18, 2004