Pronounced: par-uh-STATE-l, noun/adj
Notes: I didn’t know this word existed
Yesterday’s word
The word emprise is “an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise”
First usage
Our word came into English in the second half of the 1200s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Anglo-French word emprendre (to undertake). Our word was used in The Canterbury Tales talking about – of course – a knight.
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