corposant

Jan. 17th, 2007 07:27 am
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corposant - n., St. Elmo's fire -- a visible electric discharge on a pointed object during an electrical storm.


Such as on a ship's mast or airplane wings. From Portuguese corpo-santo, holy body. St. Elmo, btw, is the patron saint of sailors.

---L.
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