Word: anorak
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...relates all this in a hotel room, out of public view, fearful of meeting the same fate as his father. Militant leader Hassam is different. A doleful-looking man with an ill-concealed revolver in his anorak, Hassam chooses to meet with TIME in a open-air teashop in the southern city of Yala?a measure of how confident the insurgents have become...
...playing cupid" when she invited the Prince of Wales to her family's Althorp estate for a shooting weekend in November 1977. Sarah was probably joking, since she had had designs on Charles herself. Her sister hardly looked like competition, standing shyly by in a checked shirt and an anorak. Nor was the future princess greatly impressed herself: "What a sad man," she thought of Charles. Her opinion soon changed, and as her father would recall of the weekend, "Somehow she automatically ended up standing at the side of Prince Charles." Years later, she would leave, of course, but that...
...with a falling human body, of a startled sheep sent flying by a hallucinating young man on a motorcycle and of a normally staid judge shocked into submission by a strong-willed woman in "what looked like an old tweed skirt with a stain on it. And a scruffy anorak." These images, often skillfully presented and very funny, make the novel worth reading...
...shows in Paris and Milan, the number of shopping bags coming in is unbelievable," notes Brubach, who says she accepts no free or discounted clothes, in accordance with Times policy. "You don't need to be a private detective when everyone shows up the next day in an anorak with a lining that says chanel, chanel, chanel. You can figure out that this was the present this season...
Among the unwelcome additions are anorak, or parka, which the dictionary carefully attributes to Eskimos, not Anglophone backpackers. Other offenders: auto-stop, auburn and bacon. To those who cannot abide Franglais, as English words used in French are called, each such entry is a babelisme, which the new dictionary defines as the "degradation of a language by the invasion of foreign words...