Saturday, 5 January 2013

quotidian


quotidian
(adj)

(kwo-tid-ee-uhn)

"occurring or recurring daily"
"commonplace"

I came across this word yesterday in a novel by Doris Lessing

...for this love,which was of the quotidian, daily bread sort...
( referring to middle-aged love)

It prompted me to recall the name of a chain of bakeries I had seen in  New York - Le Pain Quotidian, which now makes sense to me, and I can also now pronounce it.


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