lounge (v.)
to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon.
1508, from Scot., of uncertain origin, "to lounge about, lie at full length,"
The noun in the sense of "comfortable drawing room" is first recorded 1881;
in the sense of "couch on which one can lie at full length," 1830. Lounge lizard is from 1912,
originally in reference to men who hung around in tea rooms to flirt.
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Monday, 23 January 2012
lepidoptera
for a variety of reasons butterflies are exercising my mind at the moment. and then, as if by magic, i see that i've has schumann's papillons sitting on my piano for months! t thought she heard me playing it but it was this. i wish!!
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