I will take definitions for this magnificent word until Monday next.

My entry's en route as we speak.

I have entries from Bob and Hab, both wonderful (the daffynitions and the men!! )

Jo,
I pondering it... look for email soon! Hope you are doing well. It's a great word..

C'mon folks... I have five daffynitions. Shirley, you can do better than that!

Don't call me Shirley!

(someone had to post that... )

tomorrow is the deadline. So far, I have seven daffynitions. If I have to make up more, it will get more difficult.

Okay. Here we go. The daffynitions have been wonderful. So vote away!

1. Mourning clothes, traditionally worn for a period of a week after a funeral.

2. Padding a literary or musical work.

3. Fashion design term for the gathering of fabric at the waistline of a skirt or dress.

4. A metallurgy term where metal powder is mechanically treated, thus altering the size or shape of the individual particles.

5. (Fr. culinary) Stuffing; a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables.

6. An armoire.

7. An expensive, stylish hairdo, usually done by a Master Hairdresser.

8. Formal dress worn by members of the court while riding horseback while on parade.

9. A procession of horsemen and their mounts prior to a dressage competition, i.e. an entrance.

10. The ancient art of carving chess figures by hand.

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Absolutely no idea.

I'll try 5.

I, too, will try five.

~~~ jerry

History says that I should try 5. However, I will take last place again and try 8.

Oops... I need to change definition #2 to "padding" rather than "adding to"... can't read without my glasses. Won't say who it was who pointed out my mistake.

Also, #8 needs the addition of the phrase, on the end, of "while on parade."

So sorry...

If I wait until two more people vote for five and then I cast my vote too, will I get extra credit for a Yahtzee?

I'll go for 3.

I love a parade!

# 8 for me, please . . .

I always wonder why #1 and the last number are chosen the least... sigh... however,

I'm voting for #9....

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Originally posted by jo:
Oops... I need to change definition #2 to "padding" rather than "adding to"... can't read without my glasses. Won't say who it was who pointed out my mistake.

Also, #8 needs the addition of the phrase, on the end, of "while on parade."

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Can you not click on the middle-of-the-three little icons in the lower right-hand corner of your original post (which should be the folder with a pencil eraser), and go back and make those desired alterations?

um... er... I dunno. Well, okay. I've edited the original message. But... I really felt I should let you know.

Any more votes?

I'll take five also.

Okay. Here we go. This word is a marvelous example of a foreign word, French, which has an English definition that is somewhat removed from the French. While many of you added to your private messages the information regarding the French rempli means to fill, apparently you guessed that the "filling" referred to stuffing or filling something up, rather than "filling out" as the English usage implies.

I'm hard pressed to use the term appropriately. One guess would be: "The excessively detailed chapters on the mechanics of whaling contained in Moby Dick is a good example of remplissage in American literature." Or... "The string introduction to the second movement was nothing more than pretentious remplissage to an otherwise tedious and pedestrian composition."

1. Mourning clothes, traditionally worn for a period of a week after a funeral. Defined by Bob Hale; guessed by no one.

2. Padding a literary or musical work. The real answer! No one guessed it.

3. Fashion design term for the gathering of fabric at the waistline of a skirt or dress. Defined by the Haberdasher himself! Guessed by Arnie! At last, the master is fooled.

4. A metallurgy term where metal powder is mechanically treated, thus altering the size or shape of the individual particles. Defined by Kalleh.... ditto

5. (Fr. culinary) Stuffing; a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables. Defined by Arnie! Guessed by just about everyone... Bob, Jerry, Hab, Asa

6. An armoire. Defined by CW. Alas it fooled no one.

7. An expensive, stylish hairdo, usually done by a Master Hairdresser. Defined, and excellent so, by Jerry! but alas and alack, no takers.

8. Formal dress worn by members of the court while riding horseback while on parade. Definition thrown in by meself just to pad things; guessed by CW and Kalleh

9. A procession of horsemen and their mounts prior to a dressage competition, i.e. an entrance. Defined by Asa; guessed by KHC

10. The ancient art of carving chess figures by hand. And my favorite daffynition of all, provided by KHC. If I hadn't known I would have picked this one.

Great going, Jo! No one guessed your word! Think of all the points you'd have, were we keeping score. I am sooo glad we've stopped that.

Unless someone is panting for the next word, I'd love to post one that my logophile friend has introduced me to.

Now here's a weird thing. For the first time ever , now that I've seen the answer I realise that I did in fact know it even though the real definition never registered at all when I read it.

I certainly should have guessed it! I knew that the French remplir means "to fill", hence my "stuffing" daffynition. Presumably others knew that as well and were fooled as I had hoped!

It's also amusing that the daffynition thrown in by jo as remplissage, as it were, fooled two.

...knowing the French root only narrowed it down to 2, 3, or 5. After that it was still a guess!

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
...knowing the French root only narrowed it down to 2, 3, or 5. After that it was still a guess!

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Exactly so, Hab! I thought they were ALL wrong, but I had to guess something.

Heck, I have to use my dictionary to decifer half the posts on this site, anyway . . . I never expect to know what these things mean.

Asa fooled me with horsemen and "dressage".... I wasn't even thinking of remplir... and I should have been, after tutoring two hard-headed children of mine in French... Mon Dieu!

Good word, Jo.... !! You fooled The Arnie... or rather, Haberdasher did! What fun....

Kalleh... you are NEXT.

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...knowing the French root only narrowed it down to 2, 3, or 5. After that it was still a guess!

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Precisely! Since I submitted 5. I knew it wasn't that, Out of 2. and 3. I guessed wrongly.

Out of 2. and 3. I guessed wrongly.

To quote a wordcrafter who now only strolls in here infrequently, that's a half a point, arnie!

And Jo! You must be the big winner after all these games recently because you frequently fool people and you often get the word right too! This time, though, you were amazing. Your word fooled everyone, and you fooled 2 with your daffynition! Way to go!

I will post the next word in another thread.