'Dude', 'Grotesque', And Other Words That Came From High-Culture History
Dude seems to have developed from a pejorative epithet for a man about as far as possible from Jeff Bridges's character as one could get. Grotesque came from a hole in the ground in Rome. Picturesque originally referred to actual pictures " specifically, a particular style of painting. Silhouette started as Louis XV's treasury secretary, […]