SC - Re: sca-cooks 'Buch von guter Speise'
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Sun Jan 14 18:05:55 PST 2001
In a message dated 1/11/01 10:52:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jenne at mail.browser.net writes:
<< Uh-- guys, where did the Gillyflowers go? And where the did the cloves
come from? >>
Gilliyflower being used to mean carnations is a later meaning of the word
original the term meant cloves.
>From Miriam-Webster:
gil*ly*flow*er (noun)
[by folk etymology from Middle English gilofre clove, from Middle French
girofle, gilofre, from Latin caryophyllum, from Greek karyophyllon, from
karyon nut + phyllon leaf -- more at CAREEN, BLADE]
First appeared 1551
: CARNATION 2
Ras
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