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.
was taken with this article about xenophobia in the nineteenth century from lapham's. ernest renan is namechecked. what is a nation still worth reading, even if the man himself, even by the standards of the day, is less than sympathetic. and also because it's difficult to imagine the presentation of such a nuanced argument by a public figure today
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