Word of the Day: CLEOPATRICAL

ETYMOLOGY
after the manner of Cleopatra

EXAMPLE
“…Oh, Cleopatricall! what wanteth there
For curious cost, and wondrous choise of cheare?
Beefe, that earst Hercules held for finest fare;
Porke for the fat Boeotian; or the hare,
For Martiall, fish, for the Venetian…”

From: Virgidemiarum
By Bishop J. Hall, 1597
Satire III