Pronounced: KWING-kuhngks (alt: KWIN-kuhngks), noun
Notes: A neat word for something… it would be neat to find uses for this word
Yesterday’s word
The word lateritious means “resembling, made of, or the color of bricks”
First usage
This word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I had no idea that there was a word for brick-colored. Our word comes from the Latin word later (brick).
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 