Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

couture \koo-TOOR\, noun:
  1. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
  2. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
  3. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.
adjective:
  1. Created or produced by a fashion designer.
  2. Being, having, or suggesting the style, quality, etc., of a fashion designer; very fashionable.
Couture is from French meaning sewing, from Old French cousture, from Vulgar Latin cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsuere, cōnsūt-, to sew together. 

holiday pounds
  • The extra little bit of weight you put on during a period of being on holiday or vacation.
Man, when I get back to work I'll have to start going to the gym again- I've put on some serious holiday pounds

History
  • Russo-Finnish War: began; at its conclusion, Finland ceded part of its territory to Russia (1939)
  • Lucille Ball: zany redheaded comedienne married Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, who became her costar in I Love Lucy (1940)
    De Soto: The last car of this name tag rolled off the assembly line (1960)
  • Barbados: gained its independence from Great Britain (1966)
  • Tiny Tim died after ending a show early because he felt ill. (1996)
Birthdays
  • Jonathan Swift 1667
  • Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835
  • Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874
  • Brownie McGhee 1915
  • Efren Zimbalist, Jr. 1918
  • Virginia Mayo 1920
  • Richard Crenna 1926
  • Dick Clark 1929
  • G. Gordon Liddy 1930
  • Teddy Wilburn 1931
  • Bob Moore 1932
  • Abbie Hoffman 1936
  • Jimmy Bowen 1937
  • Robert Guillaume 1937
  • Frank Ifield 1937
  • Ridley Scott 1937
  • Luther Ingram 1944
  • Rob Grill (The Grassroots) 1944
  • Roger Glover (Deep Purple) 1945
  • David Mamet 1947
  • Margaret Whitton 1950
  • Mandy Patinkin 1952
  • Shuggie Otis 1953
  • June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1954
  • Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls) 1954
  • Billy Idol 1955 
  • John Ashton (Psychedelic Furs) 1957
  • Bo Jackson (NFL, MLB) 1962
  • Jalil (Whodini) 1963
  • Ben Stiller 1965
  • Paul Wheeler (Icehouse) 1965
  • Nicole Simmons 1969 (t3h pr0n)
  • Allan Sherman 1975
  • Mindy McCready 1975
  • Clay Aiken (Clayton Holmes Grissom) 1978
  • Elisha Cuthbert 1982
  • Kaley Cuoco 1985
  • CJ Gibson 1983
  • Suzanna Aye 1987 

     
 
 
 
 

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