Originally Posted by
nlerner
The Rivendell folks would call it "
beausage." I can't say I'm a fan of that word.
Well just the fact that it looks like a french word, though it is in fact a newly coined English word (beau[ty+u]sage) is problematic. But it refers to a phenomenon that is real. In fact the phenomenon is as old as the human race. Is there an older word for it?