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Raffish

May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Definition: 1: marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness   2: marked by a careless unconventionality : rakish

Quotation:

For the museum, founded in 1917 and guarded by two 18-inch guns from a World War I dreadnought, there is something — well, raffish — in the staging of an exhibition about the glamorous, gadget-wielding, womanizing, devil-may-care Bond and his creator, for whom the superspy was in many respects an alter-ego.

- from “Remember Fleming, Ian Fleming” in The New York Times

I think I saw “rakish” the first time I read this word and had to do a double take. If I ever make the same mistake it’s good to know that they’re pretty much interchangeable. Maybe Banana Republic got tired of calling their clothes rakish and needed to come up with something new, but not too different, to describe the collars of their spring collection shirts.

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