Sojourn

Word to the Wise: Sojourn

A “sojourn” (SOH-jurn) - from the Latin for “lasting for a day” - is a temporary stay.

Example (as used by Christopher Benfey in Degas in New Orleans): “As chance would have it, Degas’s five-month sojourn in New Orleans coincided with an extraordinarily contentious period in the stormy political history of the city.”

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