Pronounced: floor-uh-LEE-juhm (alt: floor-uh-LEE-jee-uhm), noun
Notes: I didn’t know the meaning, but “flor…” made me think of flowers
Yesterday’s word
The word coventrate means “to devastate, such as by heavy bombing”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1940s
Background / Comments
Our word goes back to the bombing of Coventry in central England; it was devastated by German bombing in Nov 1940. The Germans coined a verb coventrieren, which came into English very quickly as coventrate.
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