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Floridaboiler
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 Posted: 07/02/04 - 19:50 Post subject: Time to increase our vocabulary!!
Anacreontic (uh-nak-ree-ON-tik) adjective
Celebrating love and drinking.
noun
An anacreontic poem
[After Anacreon, a Greek poet in the 6th century BCE, noted for his
songs in praise of love and wine.]
The US national anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is set to the tune of
the English song 'To Anacreon in Heaven' which was the 'constitutional
song' of the Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen's music club in London.
Have an an Anacreontic 4'th!!!
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