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Medieval Wordbook by Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Medieval Wordbook

Madeleine Pelner Cosman

294 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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In Medieval Wordbook you will discover the source of many words and phrases that make up part of our modern vocabulary, for example: corduroy, from the French corde du roi, "cloth of the king," is a ridged silk or cotton fabric; gossip, from the A...

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