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May 24, 2019
This week’s themeTosspot words borrowed from other languages
This week’s words
amuse-gueule
skitterbrook
cache-sexe
scaldabanco
gainpain
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with Anu Garggainpain
PRONUNCIATION:
(GAYN-payn) 
MEANING:
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French gaignepain (literally, wins the bread), from gagner (to win or earn) + pain (bread). Earliest documented use: 1430.
USAGE:
“The gainpain was a glove, at first of steel and later of leather, for the right hand.”
The Connoisseur; Nat Mags; 1928.
The Connoisseur; Nat Mags; 1928.
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