NAMELY
EP-oh-nimz
a word based on
or derived from a person's name.
First Known Use: mid-19th
century
“What’s in a
Name?”
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2
8: cardigan: a jacket-like,
woolen sweater that opens at the front and may have buttons that are often left
undone (source: James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, 1797–1868;
English soldier; led the Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854; first
use 1862)
He led that fabled Light Brigade*
That Tennyson would celebrate.
He swung his sharpened, famous blade—
Survived to die some other date.
But now we know him mostly for
Those sweaters that those old guys** wear.
Forgotten now is all that gore—
The cannon fire, swords swung in air!
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