Sanguine - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food

[ruadh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: Sanguine - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food


>
> >>Just out of curiosity, what does sanguine mean, in knife terms? I'm
> >>aware of definitions of the word as either bloody (and by extension,
> >>blood-colored) and as optimistic. How does one get a knife to be
> >>sanguine, or do I not want to know?
>
> Well, since the originals (thanks, Thomas!) say "dextramente col
coltello",
> how about a 'dexterously wielded knife', in the sense that it is
> "cheerfully optimistic" about completing its task, rather than a
> bloodthirsty knife.
>
> Cindy

or in schtick jockery... treat as a "light" combatant, rather than rhino
hiding a "heavy". ?? Ru