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Word: qui (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bourses a ete attribuee a Harvard University, qui en a agree l'hommage par une lettreen date du 12 juin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM PARIS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...choix qui a ete fait de lui par les autorites competentes, comme titulaire pour une ou 2 annees, de la bourse inscrite au nom de Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM PARIS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...souvenir qui pleure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRUITS D'AUTOMNE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...homme qui suit son desir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE FRENCH. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

Again it was suggested that if we take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at any rate, has been used in English since the time of Hudibras, who says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANTIQUITY OF PANTALOONS. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

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