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Get the Retroverse mug.A person who wears vintage clothing, especially from the swing dance era (late 1920s to 1940s), as everyday apparel, as opposed to wearing it only for special occasions. See also retrovestry.
From 'retro', a Latin-derived prefix meaning backwards, which today often refers specifically to the imitation of fashions from the recent past, and 'vest' (Middle English: from Old French vestiment, from Latin vestimentum, from vestire 'clothe', or from the Italian vestis, meaning 'garment'), plus 'er' a suffix descriptive of a person of a type described by the rest of the word.
From 'retro', a Latin-derived prefix meaning backwards, which today often refers specifically to the imitation of fashions from the recent past, and 'vest' (Middle English: from Old French vestiment, from Latin vestimentum, from vestire 'clothe', or from the Italian vestis, meaning 'garment'), plus 'er' a suffix descriptive of a person of a type described by the rest of the word.
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The practice of wearing vintage clothing, particularly from the era of swing dance (late 1920s to 1940s), as day-to-day clothing, as opposed to for special occasions only. See also retrovester.
by Lindybeige August 11, 2011
Get the retrovestry mug.resreverser: noun res-ri-vurs-sur
a palindromic definitional word for a palindrome/ also, an onomatopoeiac, palindromic definitional word for a palindrome.
palindrome: noun pal-in-drohm
from dictionary.com
“a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.”
re onomatopoeia:
a palindrome is reversing, just as a cuckoo cuckoos; therefore: resreverser is reversing
note: resreverser is not the sound of reversing per se, but the action of the sound
res + reverse + r
res:
from the Online Etymology Dictionary:
Latin word once used in various phrases in English, often in legal language, where it means "the condition of something, the matter in hand or point at issue;" literally "thing" (see re). For example res ipsa loquitur "the thing speaks for itself;" res judicata "a point decided by competent authority."
reverse: verb ri-vurs
from the Online Etymology Dictionary:
early 14c., reversen, (transitive), "change, alter" (a sense now obsolete); late 14c., "turn (someone or something) in an opposite direction, turn the other way, turn inside out," also in a general sense, "alter to the opposite;" from Old French reverser "reverse, turn around; roll, turn up" (12c.), from Late Latin reversare "turn about, turn back," frequentative of Latin revertere "turn back, turn about; come back, return" (see revert).
r : a suffix; a noun finisher
alternatively -er
a palindromic definitional word for a palindrome/ also, an onomatopoeiac, palindromic definitional word for a palindrome.
palindrome: noun pal-in-drohm
from dictionary.com
“a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.”
re onomatopoeia:
a palindrome is reversing, just as a cuckoo cuckoos; therefore: resreverser is reversing
note: resreverser is not the sound of reversing per se, but the action of the sound
res + reverse + r
res:
from the Online Etymology Dictionary:
Latin word once used in various phrases in English, often in legal language, where it means "the condition of something, the matter in hand or point at issue;" literally "thing" (see re). For example res ipsa loquitur "the thing speaks for itself;" res judicata "a point decided by competent authority."
reverse: verb ri-vurs
from the Online Etymology Dictionary:
early 14c., reversen, (transitive), "change, alter" (a sense now obsolete); late 14c., "turn (someone or something) in an opposite direction, turn the other way, turn inside out," also in a general sense, "alter to the opposite;" from Old French reverser "reverse, turn around; roll, turn up" (12c.), from Late Latin reversare "turn about, turn back," frequentative of Latin revertere "turn back, turn about; come back, return" (see revert).
r : a suffix; a noun finisher
alternatively -er
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