Pronounced: dolls, noun
Notes: This is one of those words that I knew, but didn’t know that I knew
Yesterday’s word
The word politic means “tactful; shrewd”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Old French word politique (political), which came from the Latin word politicus (political), which came from the Greek word politikos, which came from polites (citizen), which came from polis (city).
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