Today's Word "bouleversement"
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bouleversement \bool-vair-suh-MAWN\ (noun) - Complete overthrow; a reversal; a turning upside down.
"For the second time in his life Amory had had a complete bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'This Side of Paradise'
Bouleversement comes from French, from Old French bouleverser, "to overturn," from boule, "ball" (from Latin bulla) + verser, "to overturn" (from Latin versare, from vertere, "to turn").
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