Malvika's Ramblings

27May/080

Phew

I have been looking for this word for years! And I finally have it. Aldous Huxley used it repeatedly in Brave New World to describe women. I read it nowhere else since; came across it while looking for info on the Ajit Bhavan Palace Resort. What was it doing there? I don't remember exactly.

pneumatic

 

 

 

Etymology:
Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos, from pneumat-, pneuma air, breath, spirit

1          of, relating to, or using gas or air; inflated

2          of or relating to the pneuma (spiritual)

3          having a well-proportioned feminine figure; especially having a full bust

 

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