Pronounced: BLAN-dish, verb
Notes: I didn’t quite know this word
Yesterday’s word
The word Arrow-collar means “conventionally attractive and suave”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1910s
Background / Comments
In the early 1900s, a company called Cluett, Peabody & Co. sold detachable collars called “Arrow Collars” (I don’t know if it is related, but I remember having some Arrow shirts). The advertising for these collars featured a (supposedly) ideal man — known as the Arrow Collar Man; the idea caught on and our word came into being.
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