Re: Albanian words for eyebrow


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...

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BTW, what's a chafing dish? When we keep food warm on the buffet, do we
chafe it?

Yes, in the archaic sense of heating it; cf. Fr. <chauffer>.

The term was still recognized in 1954, as it appears in Follett's Latin
Dictionary (14th pr.) as the translation of <batillum>.



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