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noun
1.
merry-go-round (def. 1).
2.
a continuously revolving belt, track or other device on which items are placed for later retrieval: a baggage carousel at an airport.
Origin:
1640–50; < French: kind of tournament < Italian carosello kind of ball game < Neapolitan dialect carusello game played with clay balls, clay ball, literally, little head, equivalent to carus(o) shorn head (perhaps based on the Greek stem kors- shave) + -ello diminutive suffix
1640–50; < French: kind of tournament < Italian carosello kind of ball game < Neapolitan dialect carusello game played with clay balls, clay ball, literally, little head, equivalent to carus(o) shorn head (perhaps based on the Greek stem kors- shave) + -ello diminutive suffix
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Carousel
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- Each thumbnail in the carousel above is a different piece of the map you will need to download.
- If you've timed it right, the kids can take a ride on the solar-powered carousel for a buck.
- Print out the carousel card onto a card-weight paper stock.
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Trademark.
a circular tray in which photographic transparencies are held on a projector and from which they are lowered through slots for projection as the tray is rotated.
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Word Origin & History
carousel
"merry-go-round," 1673, earlier "playful tournament of knights in chariots or on horseback" (1650), from Fr. carrousel "a tilting match," from It. carusiello, possibly from carro "chariot," from L. carrus (see car).
EXPAND"A new and rare invencon knowne by the name of the royalle carousell or tournament being framed and contrived with such engines as will not only afford great pleasure to us and our nobility in the sight thereof, but sufficient instruction to all such ingenious young gentlemen as desire to learne the art of perfect horsemanshipp." [letter of 1673]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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