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Where Queen Elizabeth Slept  What the Butler Saw: Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Where Queen Elizabeth Slept What the Butler Saw Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Author: David N. Durant, David 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 kn...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312156886
ISBN-10: 031215688X
Publication Date: 7/1997
Pages: 342
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Publisher: St Martins Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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