The Dark Side of The Moon

The Word of the Day for Mar 04 is:
mare \MAHR-ay\ noun, plural maria

: any of several mostly flat dark areas of considerable extent on the surface of the moon or Mars


Example sentence:
Looking up at the bright full moon, we saw clearly the maria that make up the face of the man in the moon.

Did you know?

"Mare" didn't officially touch down in English until 1860, but the idea that the dark areas of the moon's surface might be seas goes back at least to the ancient Greek writer Plutarch. Galileo introduced the concept in modern times. He himself never used the Latin word "mare" ("sea") to describe these "seas," but various writers of 17th-century Latin works did. Today we know that the moon is dry and its "seas" are actually old lava flows, but we still use "mare" and its plural "maria" to refer to them. (The plural "mares" occurs, too, but less frequently.) Incidentally, the "mare" that is pronounced MAIR and means "female horse" has no connection with Latin or the sea. Rather, it is derived from "mearh," the Old English word for "horse."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

My sentence:
The word mare has such a narrow, specific definition that I'm at a loss for even a mediocre sentence.

Comments

[Vanessa]

Beckett, or Brecht, or somebody, wrote a lovely little play abut Galileo, and how the Church persecuted him for discovering those mares.