molendinaceous

[prettygoodword]

molendinaceous (moh-len-di-NAR-ee-us) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling the sails of a windmill.


Also molendinarious. From Latin, from molendinum, a mill, from molere, to grind.

File this one under Department of There's A Word For That?.

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Marvelous. I'll have to share this with jmeadows, who wrote a novel featuring windmills of this sort :-)

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Yes but is it a fully molendinaceous novel, or only incidentally?

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'd estimate it was probably a ... 38 percent molendinaceous novel.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right. Even when windmills are not on screen, they're in thoughts.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Coo -- that's a pretty high Molendinaceousness Score. For modern literature, anyway.

---L.

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

I think "tilting at windmills" is the main association most folks have with Don Quixote is because it's very early in the book, so you know about it even if you got nowhere near the finish.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Pity this word doesn't really apply, since he was tilting at the windmill towers, not sails.

---L.