{"id":41600,"date":"2024-12-14T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41600"},"modified":"2024-12-14T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:31:17","slug":"word-of-the-day-1011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/14\/word-of-the-day-1011\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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  1. (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.<\/li>\n
  2. A\u00a0dance\u00a0in a\u00a0circle.<\/li>\n
  3. Anything having a round form; a\u00a0roundel<\/a>. [Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I sort of expected it to be listed as a portmanteau, as I’ve never heard this word before, but that it’s associated with music explains the matter. I’ve never pursued musical knowledge beyond visiting some Sacred Harp circles. Noted in “The 10 best movies of 2024: \u2018Anora,\u2019 \u2018A Real Pain\u2019 and home-brewed charm,<\/em><\/a>” Ty Burr, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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    A throwback to when movies were unafraid to be sexy (see also \u201cHit Man\u201d), this tennis roundelay from Italy\u2019s Luca Guadagnino (\u201cCall Me by Your Name\u201d and other sybaritic delights) casts Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O\u2019Connor as participants in a years-long throuple\u2019s match on and off the court(ship). \u201cChallengers<\/a>,\u201d more than \u201cDune Two,\u201d stakes Zendaya\u2019s claim as one of the sharpest Gen Z actors around \u2014 let\u2019s just go ahead and call it Gen Zendaya \u2014 and the movie\u2019s a sensual\/sensuous treat on the filmmaking and narrative levels alike. Profound? Hell, no. But it sure hits the sweet spot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Roundelay: (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals. A\u00a0dance\u00a0in a\u00a0circle. Anything having a round form; a\u00a0roundel. [Wiktionary] I sort of expected it to be listed as a portmanteau, as I’ve never heard this word before, but that it’s associated with music explains the \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-41600","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\/41600","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=41600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41602,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41600\/revisions\/41602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}