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--- Zounds, I always thought that a falute was a kifs.
The artifice: a comic opera. In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 1780
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At the inftant of our landing the velTels fired a general falute, which did not fail of alarmmg the iflanders.
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They place themfelves upon the cloth, falute the fun, and clothe themfelves in the other cloths which were in the difli.
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Mafs was afterwards celebrated, after which the captain invited the King to dinner; 'but his Majefty excufed himfelf, accompanying us however to the boats which took us back to the fquadron, on which another general falute was fired.
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And therefore ftill the ccclefiaflical court may proceed againft a fmionift pro falute animae, aid upon cxamina* tion and evidence deprive him for that carufe: and this, aitho 'he was not privy to the contrad 1 for there ate no acceifaries in Simony, And when-the fpiritual court hith
Ecclesiastical Law 1797
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He affected to falute all, who were in the windows, on the right and left hand.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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The owl had left to 'plain, and from each thorn The wiiig'd mnficians did falute the morn,
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795
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When they arrive within a few hundred yards of the fort, they dif - charge their fowling-pieces, to compliment the Englifli; who, in re - turn, falute them by firing two or three fmall cannon.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States 1795
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As the court pafled (which it was obliged to do, in ccMning from Paris) the eftate of the Marquis de Boulainvilliers, at Montgeron, the princefles paffed firft, and condefcended to falute us:
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After drinking the healths of the king and royal family, each health ac - companied with a falute of fifteen guns, ad - miral Molcke gave, in compliment to Mr. Elliott, the Englifh envoy, who was pre - fcnt.
Travels Into Poland: Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with ... 1791
PaladineIV commented on the word falute
The letter S, in times past, was represented by a character which much resembled an F, and for purposes of humor, writers sometimes used an f instead of an s, when creating an alternate, and satirical, meaning. Thus the word Salute, becomes Falute, with a connection to Faluting, or High-Falutin, a regional expression Meaning: (Regional slang) 1. Highly pompous, bombastic (speech). 2. Showing off, ostentatious, pretending to be above one's station in life, putting on airs. Notes: The amazing thing about high-falutin' is that is not a high-faluting word itself for it is always pronounced with a regional twang—high-falutin'.
July 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word falute
Early 'high falutin' in 1856 National Magazinehttps://books.google.ca/books?id=XZomAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA136&dq=falutin
And the knickerbocker magazine https://books.google.ca/books?id=N_dFtyzEqFsC&pg=PA533&dq=highfalutin
highfalutin
July 25, 2017