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Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw
A Treasury of Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Paperback
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Artikel-Nr:
9780312195694
Veröffentl:
1998
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.07.1998
Seiten:
356
Autor:
David Durant
Gewicht:
502 g
Format:
216x140x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David N. Durant
Who was a tweenie? How did an ice house work and where would you find a crinkum-crankum wall? What was a chesterfield for, or a Claude glass, and how did a clock jack improve your dinner? The answers to these and many other questions appear in this dictionary, which is a feast of information and trivia for history buffs everywhere wanting to know more than just dates and dry facts. They want to know how people lived: what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, what their homes looked like. This unique dictionary reveals the fascinating details of life, allowing the reader to travel back in time and experience a typical day in any century from the sixteenth to our own. A book to give hours of pleasure whether browsed through or used for reference-it contains a wealth of unexpected information.