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Term for the ornate stern of ships like HMS Victory
On Jan 4, 3:02*pm, Richard van den Berg
wrote: 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 Gingerbread Hatches: Luxurious quarters. Gingerbread Work: Profusely carved decorations of a ship. Taffrail, or Taffarel: The upper part of a ships stern, a curved railing, the ends of which unite to the quarter-pieces. Definitions from; The sailors Lexicon, The Classic Source for More Than 15,000 Nautical Terms. by Admiral W. H. Smyth (1788-1865), first issued 1867, 1996 edition, Published 2005, Hearst Books, New York. ISBN 1-58816-281-8. 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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