felicitous \fuh-LIS-uh-tuhs\, adjective;
1. Suitably applied or expressed; appropriate; apt.
2. Happy, delightful; marked by good fortune.
We do this sort of thing most weekends anyway, said a lean rebel with gunpowder smudges on his face and the felicitous name of Troy Cool.
--Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic |
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I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this trun of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examin more closely in the light of day.
-- Roger Martin du Gard, Lietenant-Colonel de Maumort |
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