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Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:06 PM -0400
From: STADLEN@aol.com
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: TT 2 & 3 (fwd)
In a message dated 13/07/2004 18:51:21 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
It is my impression that "commode" is no longer used by Americans although
in my youth it was still used as a euphemism for the toilet fixure and also
for a dresser. Maybe a Brit can fill us in.
I know it (in London English) only as the standard word for a chair with a
chamber pot fitting into the seat for old or sick people to use.
However, the OED says it can also be:
(1) [I paraphrase and shorten] a late 17th or early 18th century
fashionable tall head-dress for women;
(2) a procuress, a bawd (Obs.);
(3) [I paraphrase and shorten] a piece of furniture with drawers and
shelves for bedroom or drawing-room.
Sorry not to transcribe in full. Writing in haste.
Anthony Stadlen
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:06 PM -0400
From: STADLEN@aol.com
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: TT 2 & 3 (fwd)
In a message dated 13/07/2004 18:51:21 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
It is my impression that "commode" is no longer used by Americans although
in my youth it was still used as a euphemism for the toilet fixure and also
for a dresser. Maybe a Brit can fill us in.
I know it (in London English) only as the standard word for a chair with a
chamber pot fitting into the seat for old or sick people to use.
However, the OED says it can also be:
(1) [I paraphrase and shorten] a late 17th or early 18th century
fashionable tall head-dress for women;
(2) a procuress, a bawd (Obs.);
(3) [I paraphrase and shorten] a piece of furniture with drawers and
shelves for bedroom or drawing-room.
Sorry not to transcribe in full. Writing in haste.
Anthony Stadlen
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L