Okay brains, I need help naming my haute couture vampire clothier, my name "From Emily, with Blood, was poo poo'd by my editor. Yeah, It is kinda crappy. I want something that is funky and can be shortened (Emily's...) wah. help. Thanks in advance.
Need help with name, Please.
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Countess de what's the french term for blood? Sang? Sangria (no that's spanish...) Somethng snappy. What is Cordon Rouge, something red. red chicken?
How about?
Madame Flavie pour les dames distinguées de l'obscurité
Madame Flavie for the distinguished ladies of darkness
Madame Flavie pour les dames distinguées de l'obscurité
Madame Flavie for the distinguished ladies of darkness
Lasting Impressions? Marks? Moonlight Becomes You? Crypt? Hey, the Goth kids will love it.
Prick-N-Pay? Bat-Mart? CD/NY (Count Dracula / New York)?
Eternity? Oops, already taken.
Prick-N-Pay? Bat-Mart? CD/NY (Count Dracula / New York)?
Eternity? Oops, already taken.
Sanguine
It's a multi-lingual pun. See The Blessed American Heritage:
1a. Of the color of blood; red. b. Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy: a sanguine complexion. 2. Archaic a. Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology. b. Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate. 3. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood.
OTHER FORMS: sanguine·ly —ADVERB
sanguine·ness, san·guini·ty —NOUN
WORD HISTORY: The similarity in form between sanguine, “cheerfully optimistic,” and sanguinary, “bloodthirsty,” may prompt one to wonder how they have come to have such different meanings. The explanation lies in medieval physiology with its notion of the four humors or bodily fluids (blood, bile, phlegm, and black bile). The relative proportions of these fluids was thought to determine a person's temperament. If blood was the predominant humor, one had a ruddy face and a disposition marked by courage, hope, and a readiness to fall in love. Such a temperament was called sanguine, the Middle English ancestor of our word sanguine. The source of the Middle English word was Old French sanguin, itself from Latin sanguineus. Both the Old French and Latin words meant “bloody,” “blood-colored,” Old French sanguin having the sense “sanguine in temperament” as well. Latin sanguineus was in turn derived from sanguis, “blood,” just as English sanguinary is. The English adjective sanguine, first recorded in Middle English before 1350, continues to refer to the cheerfulness and optimism that accompanied a sanguine temperament but no longer has any direct reference to medieval physiology.
It's a multi-lingual pun. See The Blessed American Heritage:
1a. Of the color of blood; red. b. Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy: a sanguine complexion. 2. Archaic a. Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology. b. Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate. 3. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood.
OTHER FORMS: sanguine·ly —ADVERB
sanguine·ness, san·guini·ty —NOUN
WORD HISTORY: The similarity in form between sanguine, “cheerfully optimistic,” and sanguinary, “bloodthirsty,” may prompt one to wonder how they have come to have such different meanings. The explanation lies in medieval physiology with its notion of the four humors or bodily fluids (blood, bile, phlegm, and black bile). The relative proportions of these fluids was thought to determine a person's temperament. If blood was the predominant humor, one had a ruddy face and a disposition marked by courage, hope, and a readiness to fall in love. Such a temperament was called sanguine, the Middle English ancestor of our word sanguine. The source of the Middle English word was Old French sanguin, itself from Latin sanguineus. Both the Old French and Latin words meant “bloody,” “blood-colored,” Old French sanguin having the sense “sanguine in temperament” as well. Latin sanguineus was in turn derived from sanguis, “blood,” just as English sanguinary is. The English adjective sanguine, first recorded in Middle English before 1350, continues to refer to the cheerfulness and optimism that accompanied a sanguine temperament but no longer has any direct reference to medieval physiology.
Mazhra Rose.
( Shhh it's someone's name...I saw it on a document. Looked exotic)
She probably pooh poohed 'Emily because the name is used liberally in "Devil Wears Prada" and because you are dealing with fashion she doesn't want your reader's attention to drift. (Oh Emily like in that fashion movie.)
You may want to try the mundane...like 'Kens Couture' or... 'Jack Greene's house of fashion."
I'm PM'ing you somehting.
( Shhh it's someone's name...I saw it on a document. Looked exotic)
She probably pooh poohed 'Emily because the name is used liberally in "Devil Wears Prada" and because you are dealing with fashion she doesn't want your reader's attention to drift. (Oh Emily like in that fashion movie.)
You may want to try the mundane...like 'Kens Couture' or... 'Jack Greene's house of fashion."
I'm PM'ing you somehting.
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