Pronounced: guh-ZUHN-duhr, verb
Notes: I have not heard this word before
Yesterday’s word
The word bricolage is “construction or something constructed by using whatever comes to hand”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the French word bricolage (do-it-yourself), which came from bricoler (to do odd jobs or small chores; to putter about), which came from the Middle French word bicoler (to zigzag; to bounce off), which came from the Old French word bricole (a trifle). Today, it can be used in cooking, as in the creative use of leftovers (“culinary bricolage”) or when cobbling together of various computer parts (“technical bricolage”).
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