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Regency Words: Blows

By Anne | April 12, 2021 - 7:53 am |April 20, 2021 Regency Words

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Looking for just the right word to describe a punch, smack or hit that happened in the early 19th century? Here is a collection of Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Illegitimacy

By Anne | December 6, 2020 - 7:15 am |December 18, 2020 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Regency Reader Question Would a member of the Aristocracy refer to their own baseborn child as a bastard? Or is that too modern? Would they Continue →

Regency Words: Hot Flannel

By Anne | December 16, 2018 - 7:33 am |January 2, 2019 Regency Dish, Regency Words

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The Flash Dictionary,1821 I have seen a romance author or two reference this, and honestly I think at the time I probably thought they meant Continue →

Regency Words: Quiz

By Anne | July 28, 2017 - 7:21 am |August 20, 2017 Regency Words

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Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823 The term quiz didn’t start appearing in cant dictionaries until the 19th century. I found the usage Continue →