Word: alod
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...works, e.g.,, Mary Tudor (TIME, Nov. 23, 1953) and Man on a Donkey (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952). But it is marred by a preening pedantry that too often finds Fulcun leaning on his quillons, sitting on a faldstool, glancing out of a dorter window or camping out on his alod-without benefit of definitions...
...FOOTNOTE*Quillons are the cross guards of a swordhilt; faldstool is a folding chair; dorter, a monastic dormitory; alod, land that is the absolute property of its owner...
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