tabula rasa

Pronounced: ta-byoo-luh-RAH-zuh, noun

Notes: Not a phrase I recognize


Yesterday’s word

The word deportment is “the manner in which one conducts oneself in public”

First usage

Our word came into English in the early 1600s

Background / Comments

As I noted, which I first came across this word, I didn’t really know the definition, but in the meantime between then and entering it, I have learned the word. I properly defined it when I saw it again. But it was a word I didn’t know, so I decided to include it anyway. Our word came from the French word déportement, which came from the Latin word deportare, which is composed of de- (away) and portare (carry).

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