{"id":1875,"date":"2011-03-29T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:35","slug":"advocab-aerie-by-american-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/advocab-aerie-by-american-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"AdVocab: Aerie by American Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/07\/origin-stories-aerie\/\">this post about the word <i>aerie<\/i><\/A>, little did I know that <i>Aerie<\/i> was a store you could find in the mall! (I found one on a trip to Boston).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/03\/aerie-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aerie\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/03\/aerie-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/03\/aerie-1024x848.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/03\/aerie.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/aerie\">aerie<\/a>, of course, is &#8220;the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk&#8221; &#8212; or, metaphorically speaking, &#8220;a house, fortress, or the like, located high on a hill or mountain.&#8221; Aerie can also be spelled <em>aery<\/em>, <em>eyrie<\/em>, or <em>eyry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, the store American <i>Eagle<\/i> seems to have opened up a lingerie shop called <i>Aerie<\/i>. You know &#8230; eagle &#8230; aerie?  Makes sense, right? As in, if an eagle wanted to get amorous, it might say, &#8220;Hey baby, come on up to my <i>aerie<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote this post about the word aerie, little did I know that Aerie was a store you could find in the mall! (I found one on a trip to Boston). An aerie, of course, is &#8220;the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk&#8221; &#8212; or, metaphorically speaking, &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}