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Thanks, I appreciate the info, which is not that clear on the site.
March 30, 2011
1418330794 commented on the word tiffins
Tiffins: formerly, light mid-day meals. "On her table is the most appetizing of tiffins: and after it we have another talk through the office window." Dix, Edwin Asa, (1892). A midsummer drive through the Pyrenees. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. p. 178. More recently, containers for same.
March 29, 2011
1418330794 commented on the word boscage
Alt. bocage, as in "On a sunny day, a traveller (sic) could walk for hours and emerge from the bocage as pale as a ghost." Robb, The Discovery of France, p.15.
1418330794 commented on the word diligence
Citation: "Ahead of him lay an eight-hour journey on the overnight diligence to Chatearoux, forty miles to the west." Robb, The Discovery of France, p. 8.
1418330794 commented on the word phonolithic
Citation: "If the traveler had scaled the peak of phonolithic rock -- so called because of the xylophonic sound the stones make as they slide away under a climber's feet..." Robb, Discovery of France, p. 3.
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1418330794 commented on the user 1418330794
Thanks, I appreciate the info, which is not that clear on the site.
March 30, 2011
1418330794 commented on the word tiffins
Tiffins: formerly, light mid-day meals. "On her table is the most appetizing of tiffins: and after it we have another talk through the office window." Dix, Edwin Asa, (1892). A midsummer drive through the Pyrenees. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. p. 178. More recently, containers for same.
March 29, 2011
1418330794 commented on the word boscage
Alt. bocage, as in "On a sunny day, a traveller (sic) could walk for hours and emerge from the bocage as pale as a ghost." Robb, The Discovery of France, p.15.
March 29, 2011
1418330794 commented on the word diligence
Citation: "Ahead of him lay an eight-hour journey on the overnight diligence to Chatearoux, forty miles to the west." Robb, The Discovery of France, p. 8.
March 29, 2011
1418330794 commented on the word phonolithic
Citation: "If the traveler had scaled the peak of phonolithic rock -- so called because of the xylophonic sound the stones make as they slide away under a climber's feet..." Robb, Discovery of France, p. 3.
March 29, 2011