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Libby started the topic Monthly competition July 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
The other day I discovered that sabulous means sandy or gritty. For this month’s competition please use sand and/or grit as a prompt for a piece of fiction or non-fiction, word range 100 – 500. You can use the word sabulous itself if you wish but you don’t have to.
Be literal at least some of the time. If a problem is figuratively gritty, let it somehow have actual particles too.
Deadline is midnight on Sunday 31st July.
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I did grin at this, Libby – I’ve had ‘sabulous’ scribbled on a scrap of paper and Blutacked to the edge of a shelf above my head for at least three years, but never had a chance to use it. (Possibly I got it from @raine) On the same piece of paper is ‘perse’. I’ve just looked that up and reminded myself it’s bluish grey colour, or , more recently, a purplish black.
It’s a great word!
I love the perse word, Sandra. Thanks for introducing me to it. I’d like to know more terms for colours but, as you suggest, they can be ambiguous which probably doesn’t encourage common use. Bice – learned from a novel I read a while ago – is brownish grey or dark grey, but can also refer to green or blue shades. So it’s all a bit of a challenge but interesting nonetheless.