{"id":316,"date":"2008-10-14T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-10-14T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:32:50","slug":"word-of-the-moment-serein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/word-of-the-moment-serein\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Moment: serein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the best word-a-day website, at <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/awad\/index.html\">wordsmith.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nserein<\/p>\n<p>PRONUNCIATION:<br \/>\n(suh-RAN [the second syllable is nasal])<\/p>\n<p>MEANING:<br \/>\nnoun: Fine rain falling from an apparently cloudless sky, typically observed after sunset.<\/p>\n<p>ETYMOLOGY:<br \/>\nFrom French serein, from Old French serain (evening), from Latin serum (evening), from serus (late).<\/p>\n<p>USAGE:<br \/>\n&#8220;She must have caught a chill from the serein, that&#8217;s all!&#8221; Raphael Confiant; Mamzelle Dragonfly; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2000. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here in Dublin, I&#8217;ve observed <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/words\/serein.html\">serein<\/a> during the morning, afternoon, and evening as well. I don&#8217;t know of any uniquely Irish slang for this type of rain, although there are lots of words and colloquial phrases for heavier rain.<\/p>\n<p>There must be a word for serein, given how common it is here (and how uncommon it is everywhere else I&#8217;ve lived).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the best word-a-day website, at wordsmith.org: serein PRONUNCIATION: (suh-RAN [the second syllable is nasal]) MEANING: noun: Fine rain falling from an apparently cloudless sky, typically observed after sunset. ETYMOLOGY: From French serein, from Old French serain (evening), from Latin serum (evening), from serus (late). USAGE: &#8220;She must have caught a chill from the serein, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5],"tags":[215,217,759,216,213,121,214,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}