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To: SubSailor

s'okay.

ya wouldn't happen to know what an ouche of gold is, wouldja?

I mean, what? is it a lump of gold someone dropped on their foot, or...?


1,700 posted on 02/10/2005 4:56:38 PM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: King Prout

OUCH, a brooch, clasp or buckle, especially one ornamented with jewels, enamels, &c., and used to clasp a cope or other ecclesiastical vestment. It is also used, as in Exod. xxxix. 6, of the gold or silver setting of jewels. The word is an example of the misdivision of a substantive and the indefinite article, being properly nouche, a nouche being divided into an ouche, as a napron into an apron, a nadder into an adder, and, reversely, an ewt, i.e. eft, into a newt. Nouche was adapted into 0. Fr., whence English took the word, from the Late Lat. nusca, brooch; probably the origin.al is Celtic, cf. 0. Irish nasc, ring, nasgaim, fasten.


1,702 posted on 02/10/2005 5:02:43 PM PST by SubSailor
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