deportment

Pronounced: dih-PORT-ment, noun

Notes: I didn’t know this word when I first saw it, but I have learned it by now – I’m including it nevertheless

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Yesterday’s word

The word debouch means

• to cause to emerge; discharge
• to march out into open ground
• emerge; issue

First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1600s

Background / Comments

I think I have run across our word in describing Jonah and the “whale” (really identified merely as a “great fish” in the Bible). Anyway I’m pretty sure I read the Jonah was “debouched” on to land. Our word came from the French word déboucher, composed of dé- (away) and boucher, a verbal form of bouche (mouth) — and this latter word came from the Latin word bucca (cheek; jaw).