It's too pejorative a word now to be really to the point but it captures – with its etymology in the name of a plain undyed cloth – the sense of a matt, unreflective surface to the paintings.
It consists of one word, its definition, its etymology and an example of usage, usually gleaned from recent newspaper or magazine articles.
By mid-September, a month after Allen had welcomed "Macaca" Sidarth to "the real world of Virginia," the word still held a powerful fascination, its etymology probed, its sound repeated, until it assumed an odd familiarity in political discourse.
Thus Cratylus has attributed to him by Plato the thesis that each thing has its own proper name, which expresses, through its etymology, the nature of the things it names, and which has significance only when correctly applied, but is otherwise a mere empty sound.
Because I intend to keep using G.O.P. in this space, here is its etymology (and you'd better not forget it, because I won't repeat it).
Knowing its etymology helps in part, the OED lists it as an adverb ("smack dab" adv. 2016) but as speakers we know something about its frequency too.
In addition to the first truly international English-language newspaper, Bennett Jr. left another legacy — the expression "Gordon Bennett!" Its etymology is not entirely clear, but by most accounts it was inspired by Bennett Jr. and his sometimes outrageous behavior, not by his more buttoned-up father.
Thus, it simply means "racial mixing"; any negative connotation is extraneous to its etymology.
Birdseye is surprising in its etymology.
But its etymology is relevant to the magazine industry today.
Its etymology would seem to be shrouded in mystery.
