2013-05-20

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2013-05-20 07:14 am

pococurante

pococurante (poh-koh-koo-RAHN-tee) - adj., apathetic, indifferent, or nonchalant. n., a careless or indifferent person.


Disinterested, aloof, and so on. Could be done as a fashionable pose or from simply not caring. Borrowed around 1760 from Italian (which would be shortly after a Grand Tour on the Continent including Italy became fashionable for well-off young men) poco curante, caring little, from curare, to care.

(So no, not a music tempo.)

---L.