pied- à-high-rise
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Feb 6 16:05:29 UTC 2006
[Not in OED2; no hits on Google?]
The New York Times
6 Feb. 2006
New England Final
B6/5
Zia Mahmood, the colorful Pakistani who lives
primarily in London but has a pied-à-high-rise in
Manhattan, says that if you never double a making
contract, you are not doubling often enough.
["Bridge", by Philip Adler]
Joel
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list