Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, August 15, 2024 Klingon word: luqlev Part of speech: noun Definition: curfew Source: qep'a' 27 [2020] _______________________________________________ AFAIK not used in a sentence. PUN: backward = {vel} "cover" + {qul} "fire". Cf. Google Dictionary: a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours, typically at night. "a dusk-to-dawn curfew" [ ... ] Middle English (denoting a regulation requiring people to extinguish fires at a fixed hour in the evening, or a bell rung at that hour): from Old French *cuevrefeu*, from *cuvrir* 'to cover' + *feu* 'fire'. The current sense dates from the late 19th century. SEE ALSO: ghum alarm (n) Sotlaw' distress call (n) ghuH alert (n) ghum alarm, sound an alarm (v) ghuH prepare for, be alerted to (v) ghuHmoH alert, warn (v) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons