| palindrome \PAL-in-drohm\ (noun) - A word, phrase, sentence, or verse that reads the same backward or forward.
"'The palindrome should have been a clue,' Pete Sullivan interrupted, making a chopping gesture at Mavranos. 'The Valorie personality gave Chchran one line of that, at the ruins, and we knew that palindromes were good for nothing but drawing ghosts.' 'What palindrome?' 'Sit on a potato pan, Otis,' Kootie told him." -- Tim Powers, 'Earthquake Weather'
Palindrome comes from Greek palindromos, literally "running back (again)," from palin, "back, again" + dromos, "running." |
