Peregrination
A journey, especially a journey on foot to a foreign country. The root is a Latin word that means foreigner. The word pilgrim comes from the same root. Peregrination is not a word you run into normally in modern English, but we do still speak of a peregrine falcon, which is called that because at one time it was standard practice to capture those birds on their first flight, or pilgrimage, from their nest.
(Will be published in the January 2010 issue of Denver's Community News.)
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Have you started a quest to find the most obscure words possible to define?
This word reminds me of something an old coworker used to say: "Never say 'utilize' when you can just say 'use.'" :)
In other news, I peregrinated to Mexico the first time I went there.
I haven't deliberately looked for obscure words. Sometimes, one pops into my mind and I realize that my understanding of it is fuzzy, or I wonder about its etymology, or about what might be a related usage -- in this case, why the bird is called a peregrine falcon.
I've been trying to find words or phrases that really are in use, for the most part.
I'm still a fan of "antidisestablishmentarianism."
Yeah, but everyone knows that one!
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