ci-devant \ seeduh-VAHN \ , adjective;
- French . former: used especially in reference to a retired officeholder.
Origin: Ci-devant comes from the French word of the same spelling which literally means "heretofore."
clapathy
- When an audience grows weary of clapping, either at a ceremony or musical performance.
"That graduation ceremony was so long, I got clapathetic!"
"I was clapping at the beginning of the song, but I quit when I got clapathy."
History
- Elizabeth I: the "Virgin Queen" of England began her 45-year reign, succeeding her half-sister, Queen Mary, and beginning the Elizabethan era (1558)
- US Congress: held its first Washington session in the partially completed Capitol building (1800)
- Suez Canal: 100-mile-(160 km.)-long waterway opened, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas (1869)
- Heidi bowl: NBC switched from football to Heidi, missing the last 42 seconds of a game when the Raiders came from behind, scoring two touchdowns to beat the Jets, 43-32 (1968)
- Richard Nixon: declared "I am not a crook" in Orlando, Florida, nine months before resigning over the Watergate scandal (1973)
- Velvet Revolution: demonstrations began in Czechoslovakia, leading to the fall of the communist government (1989)
- Louis XVIII (France) 1755
- Bernard Law Montgomery (Britain) 1887
- Lee Strasberg 1901
- Rock Hudson 1925
- Sir Charles Mackerras 1925
- Bob Mathias 1930
- Gordon Lightfoot 1938
- Gene Clark (Byrds) 1941
- Martin Scorsese 1942
- Danny DeVito 1944
- Lauren Hutton 1944
- Lorne Michaels 1944
- Tom Seaver (MLB) 1944
- Jim Babjak (Smithereens) 1957
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1958
- William Moses 1959
- RuPaul 1960
- Dylan Walsh 1963
- Daisy Fuentes 1966 (bottom)
- Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe) 1967
- Jeff Allen (Mint Condition) 1968
- Leslie Bib 1973
- Brandon Call 1976
- Rachel McAdams 1978
- Isaac Hanson (Hanson) 1980
- Justin Cooper 1988
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