[Sca-cooks] FW: A.Word.A.Day--postprandial

[Joanne Clyde]

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postprandial (post-PRAN-dee-uhl) adjective

    After a meal, especially dinner.

[From Latin post- (after) + prandium (meal). Ultimately from
Indo-European root ed- (to eat or to bite) that has given other
words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, and fret.]

Two siblings of this word are preprandial (before a meal)
and prandial (relating to a meal).

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus 3: 
http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=postprandial

   "A plate of the fashion petits fours accompanied Mrs. Barsky's
    postprandial iced cappuccino."
    Rebecca Mead; Off the Runway; New Yorker (New York); Feb 6, 2005.

   "There (in France) it (cognac) is still seen as a conservative
    postprandial tipple enjoyed by elderly bourgeois males."
    Susan Bell; Beau selecteur; Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh); Feb 6, 2005.

This week's theme: words related to eating and drinking.

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/postprandial.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/postprandial.ram

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