Word to the Wise: Luminary
by ETR (03/27/2008)
A "luminary" (LOO-muh-nare-ee) - from the Latin for "light" - is a person of eminence or brilliant achievement.
Example (as used by Ruth Harris in Lourdes): "Those who came to the Pyrenees sought the sublime in the mountains and the exotic in the population, drawn by the descriptions of ethnographers and literary luminaries like Vigny, Sand, Baudelaire, and Flaubert."
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