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cromlech [krom-lek]

noun

definition
1. a circle of monoliths usually enclosing a dolmen [an ancient group of stones consisting of one large flat stone supported by several vertical ones] or mound

examples
1. And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex, 1884
2. In autumn a memorial garden will be created around the stone cromlech to complete what is a lasting reminder of the sacrifice made by the people of Wales who fought in the First World War. BBC, Aug 17, 2014
3. Not only / the storm's / breakwater, but the sudden / frontier to our concurrences, appearances, / and as the full of the offer of space / as the view through a cromlech is. from the poem "The Door" by Charles Tomlinson

origin
Welsh, literally, 'arched stone'

cromlech
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chary [chair-ee]

adjective:
1 cautious or careful; wary
2 shy; timid

Examples:

Instead, 'West Side Story' languished when it was first released, its core audience of older filmgoers still chary of venturing into theaters. (Ann Hornaday, Awards season this year is already a nothingburger. And that's okay., The Washington Post, January 2022)

With a writer so chary of detail, the reader rushes to fill in. (Caleb Crain, Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics, The Atlantic, September 2021)

I should have been chary of discussing my guardian too freely even with her; but I should have gone on with the subject so far as to describe the dinner in Gerrard-street, if we had not then come into a sudden glare of gas. (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)

Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace)

Origin:

Middle English chari 'actively concerned, diligent; sorrowful, sad,' late 12c, earlier cearig (in early 12c homilies Martha sister of Lazarus is bisig and cearig), from Old English cearig 'sorrowful, full of care,' the adjective from care, qv.

The sense shifted 16c from 'disposed to cherish with care' to 'sparing, not lavish, frugal' (by 1560s, often with of). Compare the sense evolution of careful. Cognates include Old Saxon carag, Old High German charag 'full of sorrow, trouble, or care.' (Online Etymological Dictionary)

How did chary, which began as the opposite of cheery, become a synonym of wary? Don't worry, there's no need to be chary - the answer is not dreary. Chary's Middle English predecessor, charri, meant 'sorrowful,' a sense that harks back to the Old English word cearig, meaning 'troubled, troublesome, taking care,' which ultimately comes from an assumed-but-unattested Germanic word, karō, meaning 'sorrow' or 'worry,' that is also an ancestor of the word care. It's perhaps unsurprising then, that chary was once used to mean 'dear' or 'cherished.' Both sorrow and affection have largely faded from chary, and today the word is most often used as a synonym of careful. (Merriam Webster)

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catafalque [kat-uh-fawk, -fawlk, -falk]

noun

a raised structure on which the body of a deceased person lies or is carried in state.

examples
1. The casket was placed in the middle of the room on the catafalque built in 1865 to hold assassinated President Abraham Lincoln’s casket in the same place. Bill Barrow, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
2. A cardinal dispersed incense around the body, and then — before the basilica doors opened to the public — workers roped off the catafalque, such that the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI would stand apart. The Washington Post, 2 Jan 2023

origin

Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin catafalicum scaffold, from cata- + Latin fala
siege tower

Lincoln catafalque in the US Capitol
catafalque
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Clinquant (adjective, noun)
clin·quant [kling-kuhnt]


adjective
1. glittering, especially with tinsel; decked with garish finery.

noun
2. imitation gold leaf; tinsel; false glitter.

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com

Origin: 1585–95; < Middle French: clinking, present participle of clinquer (< Dutch klinken to sound); -ant

Example Sentences
Descartes has almost entirely discarded this quaintness, which sometimes passed into what is called in French clinquant, that is to say, tawdry and grotesque ornament.
From Project Gutenberg

Come here, Stephanie, and see a miracle of manhood, that could resist all the clinquant of a hussar for the simple costume of the cole Militaire.
From Project Gutenberg

The General and the generals went in and crowded the hall of audience, very clinquant with its black and white floor, glass chandeliers, long mirrors and single gilded center table.
From Project Gutenberg

Anecdotes of Painting," says, "Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes, and embroidery, through meadows and purling streams.
From Project Gutenberg

She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.
From Project Gutenberg
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candent [kan-duhnt]

adjective:
glowing from or as if from great heat

Examples:

American education has been an important topic of debate for the past few decades. However, lately it has been a candent subject in several media outlets and schools due to the increasing number of internationals who choose American colleges to pursue higher education. (Micaela Carou-Baldner, Education: Survival of the Fittest, The Current, January 2017)

Now the sky is totally dark and the colors are at their most candent and the crowd is at its most fully invested. (Adam Davies, James Turrell’s 'Skyspace' Opens at Ringling Museum, Sarasota Magazine, December 2013)

The moving floor was patterned in day and night. The low ceiling was fused where the day poured through, became a candent vapour, volatilised. (H M Tomlinson, The Sea and the Jungle)

One sun came rolling out from its fellows, an immense orb of candent sapphire. Beside it appeared a world, fit child of that luminary in size. (Abraham Merritt, The Face in the Abyss)

Was Jove that secret long, and, hearing it,
Indignant, slew him with his candent bolt. (Homer, The Odyssey)

Origin:

1570–80; Latin candent- (stem of candēns, present participle of candēre to be shining white), equivalent to cand- bright (Dictionary.com)

The earliest known use of the adjective candent is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for candent is from 1585, in the writing of John Dee, mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Candent is a borrowing from Latin. (Oxford English Dictionary)

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Coolcation

noun [kool-kay-shuhn]

In response to record-high temperatures and heat waves, planning a vacation in a colder climate where you will more likely shiver than sweat.

Used in a sentence: While their friends overheated in Europe this summer, Rick and Raquel gamely bundled up on their coolcation in Goose Bay, Canada.
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You can find quite a few interesting (and some of them, peculiar) words and concepts in the source article from Washington post (gift link, but I'm told Wash Post asks new users to create an account, which, I hasten to assure you, is quick and free):

Bleisure, buddymoon and gamping: Your guide to the new travel trends

...or, if you'd rather, [personal profile] full_metal_ox kindly provided an external link to the article: archive.ph/k9tAL

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Today is December 27th :)

"I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season." is the opening sentence of "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

So--wishing you all compliments of the season--whatever the season means to each of you--and here's the word, from Merriam-Webster:


carbuncle
noun
car·​bun·​cle ˈkär-ˌbəŋ-kəl

1a
obsolete : any of several red precious stones

b: the garnet cut cabochon

2: a painful local purulent inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues with multiple openings for the discharge of pus and usually necrosis and sloughing of dead tissue


Recent Examples on the Web

Examples of bacterial infections are boils, eyelid styes, carbuncles, nail infections, and hair follicle infections.
— Elizabeth Woolley, Verywell Health, 15 Apr. 2024

So, what will remain sitting there is an ugly carbuncle.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023

But others, notably Staphylococcus aureus, cause a range of diseases, from pus-producing boils, carbuncles, and abscesses to food poisoning, osteomyelitis, and toxic shock syndrome.
—Mark Caldwell, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

The solid gold frame is set with an assortment of dazzling gemstones, including 345 aquamarines, 37 white topaz, 27 tourmalines, 12 rubies, seven amethysts, six sapphires, two jargoons, one garnet, one spinel, and one carbuncle.
— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023

It’s been that way since the late 1960s, but if Kaktovik ain’t pretty, then Prudhoe—North America’s largest oil field—is a carbuncle in the permafrost.
— Jamie Lafferty, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2021

The drama, in their view, is nothing less than a monstrous carbuncle on the face of British society.
— Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022

But all that was knocked down half a century ago, to be replaced by a concrete carbuncle that destroyed the arch and chunks of nearby streets and has been making commuters miserable since 1968.
— The Economist, 8 Feb. 2020

This isn't Westeros; no one's out here massing troops on opposite sides of a meadow while the fat cats in the biggest tent play an oversized game of Risk and tend to their carbuncles.
—Peter Rubin, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019


Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-French charbucle, carbuncule, from Latin carbunculus small coal, carbuncle, diminutive of carbon-, carbo charcoal, ember

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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Cynosure (noun)
cy·no·sure [sahy-nuh-shoor, sin-uh-]


noun
1. something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance, interest, etc.: the cynosure of all eyes.
2. something serving for guidance or direction: Gandhi's life remains a cynosure for all of us.

Other Words From
cy no·sur al adjective

Can be confused: sinecure.

Related Words
figure, hero, luminary, personage, personality, someone, star, superstar

See synonyms for Cynosure on Thesaurus.com

Origin: First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin Cynosura, from Greek Kynósoura the constellation Ursa Minor (Little Dipper), equivalent to kynós “dog's” (genitive of kýon ) + ourá “tail”; hound ( def ), ass ( def )

Example Sentences
From these beginnings, the Voice grew into a cynosure of the counterculture.
From Los Angeles Times

This was near the climax of “The Path of Pins or the Path of Needles,” a cynosure of this year’s FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia, which began on Sept. 8 and runs until Oct.
From New York Times

DOM is in a spacious underground room, with a glowing bar done in striated honey onyx as its cynosure.
From New York Times

Brady was fortunate to come along just as the N.F.L. altered multiple playing rules that made the quarterback the cynosure of a pass-happy, high-scoring game with fleet receivers unfettered to dash upfield for long passes.
From New York Times

It’s also possible that the meme stocks will again become the cynosures of online promoters.
From Los Angeles Times
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Circumlocution (noun)
cir·cum·lo·cu·tion [sur-kuhm-loh-kyoo-shuhn]


noun
1. a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
2. a roundabout expression.

Other Words From
cir·cum·loc·u·to·ry [sur-k, uh, m-, lok, -y, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], cir cum·lo·cu tion·al cir cum·lo·cu tion·ar?y adjective
un cir·cum·loc u·to ry adjective

See synonyms for Circumlocution on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1. rambling, meandering, verbosity, prolixity.

Origin: 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin circumlocution- (stem of circumlocutio ). See circum-, locution

Example Sentences
To borrow the indelible circumlocution of the New York Times, the deal is “a foul-tasting sandwich” that both parties have ultimately decided to eat—while describing it publicly as, you know, a normal sandwich.
From Slate

“You’re now a beautiful, strong flower, who must protect your delicate petals and clean them regularly,” she adds, in one of the film’s more hilarious examples of motherly misunderstanding and circumlocution.
From Washington Post

“Little Dorrit,” the 1857 novel by Charles Dickens, lampoons the omnipotent “Department of Circumlocution,” whose stupefying procedures keep the heroine down.
From New York Times

“On both sides, there’s been a lot of circumlocution and attempted Churchillian rhetoric about the precedent to be followed during an election year to fill a vacancy,” Mr. Kennedy said on Fox News.
From Washington Times

His clumsy circumlocution reflects a desire to wriggle out from answering for the consequences of one’s own choices, a basic inability to make a defense masquerading as a defense.
From The Guardian
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chatoyant [SHəˈtoiənt]

adjective

1. (gems) having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light
2. having a changeable color or luster

origin
French, from present participle of chatoyer to shine like a cat's eyes

examples
1. Either because they possessed a chatoyant quality of their own (as I had often suspected), or by reason of the light reflected through the open window, the green eyes gleamed upon me vividly like those of a giant cat.
The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921

2. The faint eery light that glowed in the stranger’s deep-set eyes was not the lambent flame seen in the chatoyant orbs of some night-prowling jungle beast.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931

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Cornucopia (noun)
cor·nu·co·pi·a [kawr-nuh-koh-pee-uh, -nyuh-]


noun
1. Classical Mythology. a horn containing food, drink, etc., in endless supply, said to have been a horn of the goat Amalthaea.
2. a representation of this horn, used as a symbol of abundance.
3. an abundant, overflowing supply.
4. a horn-shaped or conical receptacle or ornament.

Other Words From
cor nu·co pi·an adjective
cor·nu·co·pi·ate [kawr-n, uh, -, koh, -pee-it], adjective

Related Words
abundance, affluence, cash, property, prosperity, revenue, riches, richness, security, treasure, worth

See synonyms for Cornucopia on Thesaurus.com

Origin: First recorded in 1585–95; from Late Latin cornu copiae “horn of plenty,” from Latin cornu “horn” + copiae (genitive singular of copia “abundance”); horn, cornu, copious

Example Sentences
And that’s easier said than done when your cornucopia of options has the demographic makeup of a Wilco concert.
From Slate

Trump enjoys committing pretty much every type of crime, from siccing a murderous mob after his former vice president to epic levels of business fraud, so there's a cornucopia of options for Harris to choose from.
From Salon

It was built about the same time as the Shoo-Fly, and it dispatched the area’s cornucopia of produce before it began moving an even richer payload — oil from the fields around Newhall and Santa Paula.
From Los Angeles Times

It alludes to the horn of plenty — the cornucopia and abundance.
From Los Angeles Times

This month Sharon chose the lovely but underused 400-seat Gem Theatre, around the corner from the grander Detroit Opera House, for a sensational new production of John Cage’s “Europeras 3 & 4,” an unpredictable cornucopia of run-of-the-mill opera refashioned through chance operations into an outright operatic circus.
From Los Angeles Times
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calavera

noun

[kalaˈβeɾa]

a representation of a human skull or skeleton often applied to edible or decorative skulls made from either sugar or clay, used in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls' Day.

example

Above me, a ten-foot calavera danced its skeletal can-can, oblivious to my plight.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003

origin

Spanish for "skull"

calavera

broadsheet, Jose Guadalupe Posada, 1903
calavera
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kitty-corner, catty-corner [kit-ee-kawr-ner, kat-ee-kawr-ner ]

adverb or adjective:
in a diagonal position from, especially outward from the corner of a square.

Examples:

A McDonald's is kitty-corner from a Walmart, and Tim Hortons is across the street from AAA. Convenient as it all may sound, this district is not quite real. (Katherine LaGrave, The Evolution of Miniature 'Safety Towns' for Kids, Bloomberg, June 2019)

The restaurant, which was built with an indoor and outdoor bar, sits kitty-corner to the school grounds. (Asher Price, Torchy's Tacos seeks alcohol waiver at South Congress spot, Axios, September 2024)

The next year began my transformation. I began to write about the High Line Canal, which was catty-corner to my apartment. (Loren M Hansen, Commentary: Becoming a bike advocate and how Streetsblog Denver helped me find community, Streetsblog Denver, January 2022)

I typically sit on the edge before pivoting 90 degrees and swinging my legs up, but then I'm still obliged to scooch - in kitty-corner fashion, as though my butt is a knight in a giant game of couch chess. (Nicole Shein, Are Sofas with Chaises Out of Style, or Here to Stay?, bob vila, July 2022)

Nancy had dropped my arm and was gliding kitty-corner fashion, across the floor. (Harold MacGrath, The Man on the Box)

Lieutenant Bill McDonald volunteered to lead a squad and break into a small house, just across a narrow little street and kitty-corner to the right. (Edwin L Sabin, With Sam Houston in Texas)

The grocery store is kitty corner from the coffee shop. Using my little makeshift diagram below, the blue cat is kitty corner from the orange tabby (and vice versa). (Michael Kwan, Idiomatica: Why Kitty Corner?, beyond the rhetoric, August 2018)


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Origin:

'diagonally opposite,' 1838, earlier cater-cornered (1835, American English), from now-obsolete cater 'to set, cut, or move diagonally' (1570s), from French catre 'four,' from Latin quattuor (from PIE root kwetwer- 'four'). (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Though peaked ears and spanned whiskers may be suggested by every variant, whether what is diagonal or oblique to or from something else is considered kitty-corner (or kitty-cornered), catty-corner (or catty-cornered), or catercorner (or catercornered), these seemingly feline-inspired directional words have nothing to do with cats. Instead they are yet more evidence of the English language's canoodling with French.

In the French of the 14th-16th centuries, quatre, the word for 'four,' could also be spelled catre. English speakers said 'ooh, that's handy' and snapped the term right up, but very sensibly (we think) spelled it cater. They already had a perfectly good word for 'four,' of course (it being four), but they liked that cater word for playing games and used it to refer to the four of cards or dice.

The four spots on dice, or four symbols on cards, can be seen as making an X, and it's suspected that this is how cater came to develop extended senses of 'diagonal' or 'diagonally.' English then made cater into a verb meaning 'to place, move, or cut (across) diagonally,' as in 'cater the pieces on the board,' but that never grew beyond some dialectal use. Also largely destined to flourish in dialects were a number of compound words that used cater to mean 'diagonal' or 'askew,' such as catabias and catawampus. Catercornered (and later catercorner) caught on more broadly. Eventually the dice and cards were forgotten and that first syllable settled very cat-like into a sunny spot in the lexicon and spread itself out: catty-corner and kitty-corner (and their -ed variants) were the inevitable outcome. (Merriam-Webster)

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campanile [ kam-puh-nee-lee, -neel; Italian kahm-pah-nee-le]

noun:

1. a bell tower, especially one freestanding from the body of a church.

examples
1. The campanile is three arched on all four sides, whereas the one in the picture is two arched.
Contest: Identify This Spot 2004
2. Mamma's lunch was spoiled because, in pronouncing "campanile" for the first time, she rhymed it with the river Nile, and realized what she had done when some one else soon after inadvertently said it in the right way. My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901
3. Its slender campanile looms strikingly over the surrounding neighborhood.
Catholic Cleveland: Historic Church Saved, But Others Still in Danger 2009

origin
1630–40; < Italian, equivalent to campan ( a ) bell (< Late Latin, probably noun use of Latin Campāna, feminine singular or neuter plural of Campānus of Campania, reputed to be a source of high-quality bronze casting in antiquity) + -ile locative suffix (< Latin -īle )

Campanile, Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, 6th century

capanile
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Coterminous, adj.

1: having the same or coincident (see coincident sense 2) boundaries

a voting district coterminous with the city

2: coextensive in scope or duration

… an experience of life coterminous with the years of his father.

—Elizabeth Hardwick

Examples:

Massachusetts' Nantucket County isn't quite coterminous with the island of the same name, as the county includes two small nearby islets.
Recent Examples on the Web This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville.

—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024

Its onset in the late 16th century was particularly noticeable in Anatolia, a largely rural region that once formed the heartland of the Ottoman Empire and is roughly coterminous with modern-day Turkey.

— Andrea Duffy, The Conversation, 7 June 2021


First Known Use

1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Copious (adjective)
co·pi·ous [koh-pee-uhs]


adjective
1. large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
2. having or yielding an abundant supply: a copious larder; a copious harvest.
3. exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words.

Other Words From
co pi·ous·ly adverb
co pi·ous·ness co·pi·os·i·ty [koh-pee-, os, -i-tee], noun
o ver·co pi·ous adjective
o ver·co pi·ous·ly adverb
o ver·co pi·ous·ness noun
un·co pi·ous adjective

See synonyms for Copious on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1. bountiful.
2. See ample.

Antonyms
1. scanty, scarce.
3. meager.

Origin: First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin copiosus “plentiful, rich,” from copi(a) “wealth” (from co- co- + op(s) “plenty, power, support” + -ia -ia ) + -osus -ous

Example Sentences
His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, Champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm.
From The Daily Beast

After cleaning up the copious amount of blood on my body in a bathroom, I found my clothing and got dressed.
From The Daily Beast

Unfortunately, the attention to appearance also leads to copious amounts of vitriol being spewed at famous women every day.
From The Daily Beast

Throughout her career, tales of wild behavior, random sexual encounters and copious drug use have orbited her waifish figure.
From The Daily Beast

The infection can—with copious amounts of disinfectant (bleach) and meticulous attention to detail—end there.
From The Daily Beast
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Clew [kloo]
(n.)
- A ball of thread, yarn, or cord.
 
From Old English “cliewen” (sphere, ball, skein, ball of thread or yarn) probably from West Germanic “kleuwin” from Proto-Germanic “kliwjo-” perhaps from PIE “gleu-” (to gather into a mass, conglomerate)
 
Used in a sentence:
 
“When Theseus asked Ariadne to help him find a way to defeat the fearsome Minotaur, she told him that he really needed to get a clew.”



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Cherimoya - noun.

Sometimes it feels like North Americans are at a disadvantage with what we find in the grocery store. A literal world of culinary delights awaits...just not within our reach :-D Today's interesting word and fruit is the cherimoya, which is related to a previous Wednesday word, soursop. It's also the name of the tree that bears the fruit, which is found in Central and South America.


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Couloir - noun.

Meaning "passage" or "corridor" in French, a couloir is a steep gully found on sides of mountains.


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Confluence (noun)
con·flu·ence [kon-floo-uhns]


noun
1. a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like: the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
2. their place of junction: St. Louis is at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
3. a body of water formed by the flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.
4. a coming together of people or things; concourse.
5. a crowd or throng; assemblage.

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Synonyms
4. union, joining, meeting.

Origin: First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin confluentia, from Latin confluent-, stem of confluens “flowing together” ( confluent ) + -ia -ia

Example Sentences
Near the confluence of these two rivers a tiny bridge spans the gap connecting the Korengal with the Pech.
From The Daily Beast

It may have been a confluence of factors, but going bald eagle became not so much a choice as an expectation.
From The Daily Beast

A confluence of events so seemingly magical made for a mostly charmed film shoot.
From The Daily Beast

At the same time, in a happy confluence of technology and history, Bush had an app on his iPad that he could use to draw pictures.
From The Daily Beast

Is that a fair reading, or do you see more confluence between you and Reihan/Ross than I'm suggesting?
From The Daily Beast
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