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WordOfTheday(24/10/2015)

Oct. 24, 2015
Word of the Day

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\FYOO-guhl-muhn\
noun
1. a person who heads a group, company, political party, etc.; a leader or manager.
2. (formerly) a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills.
Quotes
As with the Marquesans to-day, they had a fugleman, or leader, in all songs, who introduced the subject in a prologue, and occasionally gave the cue to a change.
-- Frederick O’Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas, 1921
Origin
Fugleman comes from the German word Flügelmann which literally means "flank man."

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