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they're all english - peplum - late 17th century: via Latin from Greek peplos . - boucle - late 19th century: French, literally ‘buckled, curled’. - pessary
by eckmLJE 5y ago
they're all english
- peplum - late 17th century: via Latin from Greek peplos .
- boucle - late 19th century: French, literally ‘buckled, curled’.
- pessary - late Middle English: from late Latin pessarium, based on Greek pessos ‘oval stone’ (used in board games).
- doula - 1960s: modern Greek, from Greek doulē ‘female slave’.
- chignon - late 18th century: from French, originally ‘nape of the neck’, based on Latin catena ‘chain’.
- tulle - early 19th century: from Tulle, a town in SW France, where it was first made.
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- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- dimitrios1 5y agoInteresting, doule in modern greek just means work. Doula is one I would have never known had it not been for the pregnant women in my life.
- blueflow 5y agoHaving had latin in school, i understood some of the female words via their latin word roots.
- AlgorithmicTime 5y ago