{"id":65881,"date":"2018-04-10T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=65881"},"modified":"2018-04-10T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:09:13","slug":"spoondrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65881","title":{"rendered":"Spoondrift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t(n.) <\/em>Origin 1760-1770
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Definition: spoon,\u00a0<\/em>variant\u00a0of\u00a0obsolete\u00a0spoom\u00a0<\/em>(of\u00a0a\u00a0ship)\u00a0to\u00a0run\u00a0or\u00a0scud before\u00a0the\u00a0wind + drift, spray blown from waves during a gale at sea. Spoondrift.<\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s what gives us \u201cbeach waves\u201d in our hair (that are all the rage these days), and what cools off our sunburn during a trip to the coast. And it’s also the sea’s idea of an all-natural moisturizer.<\/p>\n

Photo by Chris Richardson via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

Quotes:
\n“Just\u00a0the\u00a0same,\u00a0I\u00a0guess\u00a0I\u00a0can\u00a0show\u00a0you\u00a0girls\u00a0a\u00a0good\u00a0time\u00a0at\u00a0spoondrift<\/em>.”
\n– The Corner House Girls Under Canvas<\/em>,\u00a0Grace Brooks Hill<\/p>\n

\u201cSpoondrift\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0spray\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0tops\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0waves,\u201d\u00a0explained\u00a0Pearl.
\n– The Corner House Girls Under Canvas<\/em>,\u00a0Grace Brooks Hill<\/p>\n

“And\u00a0it\u00a0was\u00a0cold\u2014oh,\u00a0it\u00a0was\u00a0cold! The\u00a0pinching\u00a0cold\u00a0was\u00a0like\u00a0a\u00a0vise: spoondrift\u00a0<\/em>flew\u00a0freezing, fold\u00a0on\u00a0fold. It\u00a0coated\u00a0them\u00a0with\u00a0ice.”
\n– The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader<\/em>, 1886\u00a0Ministry of Education<\/p>\n

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(n.) Origin 1760-1770 Definition: spoon,\u00a0variant\u00a0of\u00a0obsolete\u00a0spoom\u00a0(of\u00a0a\u00a0ship)\u00a0to\u00a0run\u00a0or\u00a0scud before\u00a0the\u00a0wind + drift, spray blown from waves during a gale at sea. Spoondrift. In other words, it\u2019s what gives us \u201cbeach waves\u201d in our hair (that are all the rage these days), and what cools … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}