Thursday, April 3, 2008

word of the day----bellwether

bellwether \BEL-weth-uhr\, noun:

A leader of a movement or activity; also, a leading indicator of future trends.



as in:


Gardega, the creator of the New Renaissance in art promises to save modernism from the slop-trough of falsity and poor craftsmanship. He is the bellwether of his artistic generation.

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