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plage | Word of the Day
September 02, 2018
plage
[plahzh]
noun
1.
a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort.
2.
Astronomy
. a luminous area in the sun's chromosphere that appears in the vicinity of a sunspot.
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plage
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QUOTES
The place and the people were all a picture together, a picture that, when they went down to the wide sands, shimmered in a thousand tints, with the pretty organisation of the
plage
, with the gaiety of spectators and bathers, with that of the language and the weather, and above all with that of our young lady's unprecedented situation.
-- Henry James,
What Maisie Knew
, 1897
ORIGIN
English
plage
keeps its French pronunciation (more or less), which shows that
plage
is still not naturalized. French
plage
is a borrowing of Italian
piaggia
, which comes from Late Latin
plagia
"shore, coast." Latin
plagia
is a feminine singular noun, a direct borrowing of Greek
plágia
, a neuter plural noun meaning "sides (of a mountain), flanks (of an army)," from the adjective
plágios
"oblique, sloping, sideways." The Latin and Italian nouns refer particularly to Magna Graecia (those areas of southern Italy and Sicily that were colonized by the Greeks from the 8th to the 4th century b.c.), where there were many seacoast resort towns (with beaches).
Plage
entered English in the 19th century.
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