Vachel

[ vey-chuhl ]

/ ˈveɪ tʃəl /

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a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “little cow.”

QUIZZES

Set some time apart to test your bracket symbol knowledge, and see if you can keep your parentheses, squares, curlies, and angles all straight!

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

Among our younger friends, Vachel Lindsay comes to mind as one who has done honor to the ink-well.
Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694]|Christopher Darlington Morley
I'd tell just how Vachel Lindsay behaves when he's off duty.
Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694]|Christopher Darlington Morley
Let's see: the long slanting brow, the head thrown back, the haughty and yet genial abstraction—to be sure, it's Vachel Lindsay!
Pipefuls|Christopher Morley
Let us be grateful to the man who invented it—Nicholas Vachel Lindsay—but let us admit that the force of nature can no further go.
Irradiations; Sand and Spray|John Gould Fletcher

(Vachel is pronounced Vay-chul, that is, it rhymes with 'Rachel').
The Congo and Other Poems|Vachel Lindsay