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A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg


You see someone regularly in a certain setting, say a gym, and then you meet them elsewhere, and it takes a moment to realize that it’s the same person in a different outfit. It’s the same with this week’s words. You are likely familiar with them, except they appear in a different form.


chicane

PRONUNCIATION:
(shi-KAYN) 

MEANING:
verb tr.: To trick or deceive.
noun: 1. Deception. 2. An artificial narrowing or a turn added to a road to slow traffic down.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French chicaner (to quibble). Earliest documented use: 1672.

USAGE:
"I was totally bamboozled; I was chicaned.”
David James Duncan; The River Why; Sierra Club Books; 1983.
"He rounded the chicane to see another car slowing down.”
Anthony Hulse; The Club; Lulu; 2014.


See more usage examples of chicane in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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