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As well as containing common words, the dictionary featured many unusual words, foreign terms, proper nouns and other specialist terms. In total, the original edition featured 11,000 entries, increasing to 17,000 by the fifth edition in 1696. [2] It was later revised and enlarged by John Kersey in 1706, eventually containing 38,000 entries.
The word means "disguised" in French. Depending on sources, the term may be given as travesty, [1] [2] travesti, [3] [4] or en travesti.The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English explains the origin of the latter term as "pseudo-French", [5] although French sources from the mid-19th century have used the term, e.g. Bibliothèque musicale du Théâtre de l'opéra (1876), La ...
Foreign Words, published by Autumn Hill Books in 2006, is Alexakis’ first work to appear in English. It was published in the US with help from the National Endowment for the Arts [3] as well as the French ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.
Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901 – March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics.
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
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