Word: quillsâ
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills???usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into the 19th Century. Their use remains as an affectation...
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