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Velvet (n.) : A healthy anglophone animal doctor from Germany.
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Hessian: German composer with a predilection for music inspired either by religious subjects or birdsong, or frequently a combination of both.
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Alpaca:- Someone who parcels up aluminium.
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corduroy (n) - an ensemble of hautboys, bassons, cornemuses, hurdy-gurdies and suchlike, in attendance upon His Majesty Louis XIV, Le Roy de Soleil. Some good deal of music was written for this ensemble by Lully, who came in for criticism from contemporaries like Charpentier - he took a lot of stick over this, in fact. Modern reconstructions of the ensemble's performances have kept dozens of indifferent oboists out of JobCentres all over Britain, sometimes for as long as a week.
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Angora:- A lively bull that took a dislike to a member of the Royal Family.
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Taffeta (n.): Irish-Italian confectionery made from boiled sugar and butter.
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denim (n) - half a minim (cf "crochet")
towelling (n) - a smaller-than-usual trailer
netting (pres part) - act of using the internet
serge (proper n) - Prokofiev's name amongst his closer friends
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Gosh! I new the Germans were getting desperate but now it seems they'll try anything.
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« Reply #743 on: 22:51:27, 12-06-2008 » |
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Crêpe de Chine (n.): Pancake traditionally served with Peking duck.
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Leather n. South-African soap suds
Leatherette n. What happens after swearing in Afrikaans.
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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Cotton (colloq.) : A phrase used by removal men when the baby's bed is ready for transit.
Draylon ( colloq.) : A phrase used by Jamaican removal men when the curtain pole is ready for transit. |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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Buckram (n.): Male product of cross-breeding between rabbit and sheep.
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burlap: a confused layering, or overlap, of various West Country dialects and accents into one exaggerated and comical pirate pastiche
burlaps: what happens when one's burlap slips to reveal the Oxbridge-trained ex-choral scholar beneath
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Voile (Italian collective n.): A gathering of confused, bemused and befuddled (would-be) musicians.
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