Word of the Day:
assort
What It Means
To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
To be associated with; to consort with.
to assort a cargo
Assort in Context
“She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful; in some whim she had had them shaven off, but the colour of the peruke had been most assiduously assorted to them.”
Did You Know?
Middle French assortir.
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