BobStone
January 13th, 2007, 11:29 AM
Here are 21 brilliant, creative, but mostly wrong definitions for
TRIBADE. Plus, the real one is in there somewhere. Vote for two,
hoping to hit the correct one. The deadline for voting is 11 P.M.
PST Sunday, January 14th. Good luck to all. Please post your
votes publicly as a reply to this post. Thank you and good luck.
1. a deserved compliment
2. a bicycle gearset with three sprockets; a bicycle equippped with
three such sprockets [< the Bade derailleur ]
3. an ancient Greek merchant ship having three masts, each
with a single sail
4. the phenomenon of luminescence caused by friction between two
objects (cf _triboluminescence_)
5. a spa treatment involving immersion in three successive baths,
each at a lower temperature than the last
6. critical explanation or interpretation
7. in opera, the dramatic device of foreshadowing by referring to
an event or person in three arias
8. a dish of Provençal origin prepared from salted cod
9. dried leaf used in ancient times to make perfumed ointments
10. [Obs.] A concert played on three musical instruments (usually
cello, lute and harpsichord)
11. a prehistoric relative of the horseshoe crab
12. a lesbian
13. a signal flag raised on the lead ship in a formation to
indicate a change of course
14. a scalpel used primarily to remove superficial skin lesions
15. silly pretentious speech or writing
16._anthropol._ (a marriage) between patrilineal parallel cousins;
_loosely_ consanguineous or endogamous [Fr, F. Barthes (1954)]
17. in archery, a combination of three scoring hits, at least one a
bullseye,in a volley
18. a poem of precisely 30 lines
19. a horse-drawn three-wheeled cab popular in 19th century Paris
20. the Atlantic flying gurnard
21. a fortification consisting of a forward trench and ridge and
two flanking panterons meeting it at obtuse angles
TRIBADE. Plus, the real one is in there somewhere. Vote for two,
hoping to hit the correct one. The deadline for voting is 11 P.M.
PST Sunday, January 14th. Good luck to all. Please post your
votes publicly as a reply to this post. Thank you and good luck.
1. a deserved compliment
2. a bicycle gearset with three sprockets; a bicycle equippped with
three such sprockets [< the Bade derailleur ]
3. an ancient Greek merchant ship having three masts, each
with a single sail
4. the phenomenon of luminescence caused by friction between two
objects (cf _triboluminescence_)
5. a spa treatment involving immersion in three successive baths,
each at a lower temperature than the last
6. critical explanation or interpretation
7. in opera, the dramatic device of foreshadowing by referring to
an event or person in three arias
8. a dish of Provençal origin prepared from salted cod
9. dried leaf used in ancient times to make perfumed ointments
10. [Obs.] A concert played on three musical instruments (usually
cello, lute and harpsichord)
11. a prehistoric relative of the horseshoe crab
12. a lesbian
13. a signal flag raised on the lead ship in a formation to
indicate a change of course
14. a scalpel used primarily to remove superficial skin lesions
15. silly pretentious speech or writing
16._anthropol._ (a marriage) between patrilineal parallel cousins;
_loosely_ consanguineous or endogamous [Fr, F. Barthes (1954)]
17. in archery, a combination of three scoring hits, at least one a
bullseye,in a volley
18. a poem of precisely 30 lines
19. a horse-drawn three-wheeled cab popular in 19th century Paris
20. the Atlantic flying gurnard
21. a fortification consisting of a forward trench and ridge and
two flanking panterons meeting it at obtuse angles