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Tonsorial
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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tonsorial
"pertaining to barbers," 1813, from L. tonsorius "of or pertaining to shearing or shaving," from tonsor "a shaver or barber," from tonsus, pp. of tondere "to shear, shave" (see tonsure). Tonsorious in the same sense is attested from 1656.
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