Word: disent
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...disent Ies grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...
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