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Term for the ornate stern of ships like HMS Victory
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:56:54 -0600 brian whatcott
) wrote: Richard van den Berg wrote: Taffrail sounds also very much like "tafereel" and guess what Google gave with "taffrail tafereel": http://www.dictionary.net/taffrail Ha! Bruce has many fine qualities, among which, the ready acceptance of a better answer than the one on which he has settled, does not show up. He will continue to argue the merits to unusual lengths. Watch! Already at the start i found taffrail very much sounding like tafereel, but my translation would be "scenery", not very shiplike. The ongoing discussion made me put the two words in Google with a "what the heck" with a kind of surprising answer and some history. I'll wait if better explanations emerge ;-) -- Richard e-mail: vervang/replace invalid door/with NL.net |
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