gyronnettyadj.
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A spurious word in some recent dictionaries; an alteration (after gyron n.) of gironnetté, given as a French word in heraldic dictionaries with the explanation ‘Finished at the top with points; said of a castle or tower used as a bearing’. This is a blunder for French girouetté ‘furnished with a weathercock (girouette) of a specified tincture’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adj.1900- action right!
- action school
- action sequence
- action sermon
- action shot
- action song
- action spectrum
- action sport
- action stations
- action time
- action upon the case
- action verb
- action word
- action, writ of ejectment
- action-packed
- action-taking
- actionability
- actionable
- actionably
- actional
- actionary
- actioned
- actioner
- actioners
- actioning