good word of the day: fogram

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	Subject: 	A.Word.A.Day--fogram
	Date: 	October 14, 2004 9:04:34 PM PDT

fogram or fogrum (FO-gruhm) noun

   A person with old-fashioned or overly conservative
attitudes.

[Of uncertain origin.]

  "...so civil to all the old fograms, you would make
one imagine you liked
   nobody so well." 
   Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody, and Peter
Sabor; Cecilia: Memoirs of
   an Heiress; Oxford Press; 1999.

  "Just as he had done making himself up, in came
another old fogram of his
   acquaintance, by name the Count of Asumar. This
genius made no secret
   of his grey locks; leant upon a stick, and seemed
to plume himself on
   his venerable age instead of wishing to appear in
the hey-day of his
   prime."
   A.R. LeSage; The Adventures of Gil Blas (translated
from French by Tobias
   Smollett); George Routledge & Sons; 1912.

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