SC - Brawn Question
James Prescott
prescotj at telusplanet.net
Wed Jan 31 00:00:25 PST 2001
At 01:56 -0800 2001-01-31, rbutler_gg wrote:
> Brawn is best from the holy Rood day til Lent, and at no
> other time commonlie used for service.
The OED offers two animal-specific meanings, and notes that they
are exclusively English usages:
3. The flesh of the boar. <citations from 1377 to 1828>
4. A boar (or swine) as fattened for the table. <citations from
1400 to 1807>
Holy Rood Day = September 14.
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All my best,
Thorvald Grimsson / James Prescott <prescotj at telusplanet.net> (PGP user)
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