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The art of leaving a room so well they miss you before the door shuts.
means A farewell speech or act of saying goodbye, especially a formal one.
from From Latin vale ('farewell,' literally 'be strong/well') plus dicere ('to say'), the same dicere that gives us diction and dictionary. The word entered English in the 1600s, and 'valedictorian' — that top student charged with delivering the goodbye speech — grew from the same root a couple centuries later.
- origin
- Latin for saying farewell
- donne poem
- Forbidding mourning, written for his wife
- email form
- sincerely is the office tuxedo
- linguistic cousin
- valedictorian literally means chief farewell-sayer