[Sca-cooks] Goatee stories - Rockrose
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jan 8 13:38:36 PST 2008
Suey wrote:
> Goats came in handy as laudanum collecting devices from rockrose.
>
>
I think you mean labdanum. Laudanum is tincture of opium.
>While they munched on the plant, the oil stuck to their beards. Annually
>the beards were cut and the oil extracted, i.e. those that the pharaohs
>did not keep for themselves. They glued the goatees to their chins in
>order to smell good and that is how the word for this type of beard came
>into being.
>
That's a very fanciful etymology. I think it's mor likely that the the
word goatee derives from the resemblance of a small human beard to a
goat's beard.
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Adele de Maisieres
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