Pronounced: BRAY-key-ate, verb
Notes: I didn’t know this word, but after seeing the definition, I can understand it
Yesterday’s word
The word bespoke means
- custom-made
- relating to custom-made products
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1700s
Background / Comments
I didn’t know our word when I first saw it, but then I started watching a UK show that uses our word. It happened often enough that I know the word now. I don’t think I’ve heard it used in the US, so it may be more common in the UK. It is a shortening of bespoken, which is the past participle of bespeak (to speak for; to arrange), which came from the Old English word besprecan (to speak about).
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