Word of the Day: LABION


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin labion-labio  also Latin labeon-labeo (a person who has large lips)
from labealabia ‑o


EXAMPLE
“…for it must necessarily be a meanes to hinder their speech by thickning their lips, as experience teacheth in those who either by Nature or by accident have thick, swoln, blabber lips, causing them to speak in their mouth, uttering their words very baldly and indistinctly, and assuredly the same or worse must befall these artificiall Labions, for their Lips must needs hang in their light, and their words stick in the birth, when such unwealdy Pourers out of speech occasion a hinderance to their delivery …”

From: Anthropometamorphosis: = Man Transform’d:
Or, The Artificiall Changling
By John Bulwer, 1653

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