{"id":38025,"date":"2022-12-26T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38025"},"modified":"2022-12-26T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:29:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-849","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/26\/word-of-the-day-849\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banyan<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0banyan<\/b>\u00a0(through\u00a0Portuguese<\/a>\u00a0banian<\/i><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Arabic<\/a>\u00a0\u0628\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0646<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0bany\u0101n<\/i><\/span>, from the\u00a0Tamil<\/a>\u00a0\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0vaaniyan<\/i><\/span>\/\u0bb5\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0b95\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0vanigan<\/i><\/span>, the\u00a0Gujarati<\/a>\u00a0\u0ab5\u0abe\u0aa3\u0abf\u0aaf\u0acb<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0v\u0101\u1e47iyo<\/i><\/span>, meaning “merchant”, ) is a\u00a0garment<\/a>\u00a0worn by\u00a0European<\/a>\u00a0men and women in the late 17th and 18th century, influenced by the\u00a0Japanese<\/a>\u00a0kimono<\/a>\u00a0brought to Europe by the\u00a0Dutch East India Company<\/a>\u00a0in the mid-17th century.\u00a0“Banyan” is also commonly used in present-day\u00a0Indian English<\/a>\u00a0and other countries in the\u00a0Indian Subcontinent<\/a>\u00a0to mean “vest” or “undershirt<\/a>“. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An example is provided here, courtesy my Arts Editor, a former professional tailor.<\/p>\n

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Please excuse the hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banyan: A\u00a0banyan\u00a0(through\u00a0Portuguese\u00a0banian\u00a0and\u00a0Arabic\u00a0\u0628\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0646,\u00a0bany\u0101n, from the\u00a0Tamil\u00a0\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0baf\u0ba9\u0bcd,\u00a0vaaniyan\/\u0bb5\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0b95\u0ba9\u0bcd,\u00a0vanigan, the\u00a0Gujarati\u00a0\u0ab5\u0abe\u0aa3\u0abf\u0aaf\u0acb,\u00a0v\u0101\u1e47iyo, meaning “merchant”, ) is a\u00a0garment\u00a0worn by\u00a0European\u00a0men and women in the late 17th and 18th century, influenced by the\u00a0Japanese\u00a0kimono\u00a0brought to Europe by the\u00a0Dutch East India Company\u00a0in the mid-17th century.\u00a0“Banyan” is also commonly used in present-day\u00a0Indian English\u00a0and other countries in the\u00a0Indian Subcontinent\u00a0to mean “vest” or “undershirt“. [Wikipedia] \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38030,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025\/revisions\/38030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}