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#89029 - 12/07/02 11:38 AM Re: caritative
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Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 13858 caritative - disposed to be charitable
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#89030 - 12/07/02 11:40 AM Re:caroche
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 13858 The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
caroche
SYLLABICATION:
ca·roche
PRONUNCIATION:
k-rch, -rsh
NOUN:
A stately carriage of the late 16th and 17th centuries.
ETYMOLOGY:
Obsolete French carroche, from Old Italian carrozza,
ultimately from carro, cart, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of
wagon. See kers- in Appendix I.
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#89031 - 12/07/02 11:46 AM Re: carrefour
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Posts: 13858 carrefour
5altered (infl. by Fr) < LME quarefour < MFr quarrefour < VL *quadrifurcum, orig. neut. of *quadrifurcus, lit., four-forked, hence, where four roads meet < L quadri3 (see QUADRI3) + furca, FORK6
1 a crossroads or intersection
2 a public square or plaza
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#89032 - 12/11/02 02:04 AM Re: carambola
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Registered: 04/09/00
Posts: 3063
Loc: Jakarta I've always called them starfruit in English. I'd never heard of carambola. The Indonesian name is belimbing. They have a rather sharp, sour taste. About the only time I eat them is in rujak (fruit salad in peanut sauce).
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#89033 - 12/11/02 05:52 AM Re: carambola
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Registered: 12/01/00
Posts: 11747 Isn't carambola the diminuitve of ˇCaramba!?
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