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Regency Reader Questions: Cawker

By Anne | October 10, 2024 - 8:29 am |November 4, 2024 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Question: Have you ever investigated the term “cawker ” – I believe I read it in Heyer though I don’t remember where. One of her Continue →

Regency Words: Trip the Light Fantastic Toe

By Anne | January 24, 2024 - 6:45 am |February 15, 2024 Regency Words

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Frequently, in Regency recounts of dances and balls, the expression “trip the light fantastic toe” was used. Based on a line in the 15th century Continue →

Regency Words: Robbed

By Anne | December 22, 2023 - 7:32 am |January 4, 2024 Regency Words

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plate of children snatching a regency era ladies purse

A reader was looking for some Regency slang meaning robbed: Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823) The above are two examples you will Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Smashing

By Anne | September 24, 2023 - 7:12 am |October 3, 2023 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Moniker/Name Valerie Source of Question Research Your Question If a Regency man (say, Charles Bingley) wanted to say something is smashing, terrific, etc., what would Continue →