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Etymon #142


  1. The word was first recorded in English around 1320, from French. In 1597 the first printed edition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet used it to describe the ringing of a bell.


  1. French had already used the...
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Etymon #141


  1. The word was first recorded in English by about 1475, from French and Latin. In 1868 the Anthropological Review used it to describe the flint tools of a prehistoric age.


  1. French had already used the word b...
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Etymon #140

Drake's new look

The word was first recorded in English by about 1325, from French. In 1838 the naturalist Charles Waterton, in his Essays on Natural History, used it to describe what a drake does once a year, when it loses its bright colo...

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Etymon #139

Eagle does best

The word was first recorded in Old English by about the year 1000, inherited from Germanic. The monk Ælfric, in his Lives of Saints, used it to describe what the eagle does better than any other bird at the sun's rays.

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Etymon #138

Muddled by knights’

The word was first recorded in English around 1290, from French, and before that, Latin. The Wycliffite Bible, the first complete Bible in English, used the plural in a passage about an army set to hurl stones and darts...

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