Definitions
Etymologies
- From Balmacaan, a Scottish estate. (Wiktionary)
- After Balmacaan, an estate near Inverness, Scotland. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The beauty of the balmacaan is its clean-lined simplicity buttons are typically hidden under a front placket, and its pockets are slanted.”
“: Trench coats may be movie-star cool but so is the straight cut, A-line raincoat, also known as the balmacaan.”
“Texture had a big role in the clothes, and that stepped up the solid double-breasted swingy balmacaan coat and coated cotton blazer.”
“The runway was brimming with cocooning camel mohair sweaters, balmacaan and chesterfield coats and anuraks rejiggered with just enough newness to keep them fresh.”
“Chai gamely set the laid-back tone right with the first look: bucket shorts and a rumpled balmacaan jacket tossed over a henley tank.”
“Hilfiger offered great coats - one a trench coat with a gold-chain belt and another navy cotton balmacaan overcoat, also with gold belt - that were chic and looked like borderline dresses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘balmacaan’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
orecchiette, rhabdomancy, guayabera, orthoepy, opisthenar, maguey, proem, ciabatta, cioppino, banns, concinnity, asthenia and 237 more...
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Balmy
balm, balmy, embalm, lemon balm, horse balm, bee balm, balmacaan, balmoral, Balmoral, balm of gilead, balm of Gilead, bastard balm and 46 more...
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Lardons of Random Palavery
Another of my lists of 151 words - some food-related, others not. Whatever the reason, these are words or phrases that intrigue or excite me.
tankage, food grade silicone, food grade diatom..., food grade tape, food grade adhesive, food grade sealant, food grade grease, food grade glue, food grade hydrog..., food grade lye, property virgin, beeswax pellet and 139 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for balmacaan.
knitandpurl "She wore a man's wrinkled, white balmacaan coat, a thin yellow sweater, blue jeans, and two bracelets on one wrist."
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, p 220 Sep 9, 2010