Word of the Day: REPANDOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin repandus (bent backwards, turned up), from re- + pandus (bent)

EXAMPLE
“… And as indeed is deducible from pictures themselves; for though they be drawn repandous, or convexedly crooked in one piece, yet the Dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed in another. …”

From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica: 
Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths
By Thomas Browne, 1646

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