http://wordie.org/words/gorgeous Comments for the word 'Gorgeous' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/gorgeous#comments actually the root gorge= also means the mountainous region.. but the true story of the word 'gorgeous' comes to us from the word GURJI (Persians and later Turks call Gurji -Georgian people.. who were considered the most beautiful people.. and every beautiful women were called a 'gurji' from here - gorgeous. <br /> <br />Also i as a Georgian:-) should mention here another well known and widely term - the "Caucasian" - the race classification of white European people were called after Georgian people..by the founder of Anthropology –Blumenbach ‘after deciding that a skull of a Georgian woman was the most beautiful he had ever seen’. <br /> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:18:34 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/gorgeous#comments http://wordie.org/words/gorgeous#comments I find it funny that a word meaning "surpassingly beautiful" has <a href="/words/gorge">gorge</a> as its root, given that the only time anyone uses the word gorge in that sense today is talking about vomiting. Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:13:54 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/gorgeous#comments