Word: genu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Designers of the latest Paris fashions owe a debt to the Latin poet Virgil for their "new" ideas. The photographs worthily exemplify his description of Venus as a huntress: nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis [bare knee, and flowing robes gathered in a knot...
...Missing: Genu (L.), an anatomical region commonly known as the knee; still extant figuratively in the kitchen, as in "housewife's _______," and in the movie house, as in Claire's _______; also still virile verbally in compounds like " _______ jerk " and " _______deep " and in relating measurement, as in "_______ -high to a grasshopper"; but generally not seen in the flesh since around 1970, when it was flaunted by trend-trippers from Carnaby Street to cannery...
...fact, it is not. Skirt lengths, like their wearers, will continue to come in all altitudes. Neither do the new, higher-hemmed styles resemble the thigh-flashers of the hip-hugging mini revolution. Perhaps reacting to Paris' long, sizzling summer, the designers of the new short look have genu- flected toward comfort, stressing coolness, looseness, flounce...