[stylist] Tuesday's word: colubrine

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Working in Washington DC, I have gotten used to being near a variety of political reptiles (grin).

Shawn

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Colubrine
KAHL-yuh-bryne
Or
KAH-luh-bryne
(adjective)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a snake
2. Of or relating to a large cosmopolitan family 
(Colubridae) of chiefly nonvenomous snakes

"The senator just smiled assuming he was 
complimented, when a constituent said, 'Senator I 
regard you as the greatest colubrine icon of today's politics.'"





Brad Dunsé

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