I've decided to maintain two word lists as I read this Dorothy Dunnett series: words I don't know, and words Francis Crawford of Lymond shouldn't know. XD
(In fact I should've done this from the first, as there were a great deal more of both in book 1 compared to book 3 where I am now. "Pogrom" and "Buddhism", memorably.)
"Semmit" is an old Scots term for vest, and "fremescent" means "becoming murmurous, roaring", as in crowd noise. Which is a really good word!
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Date: 2011-05-04 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-04 02:46 pm (UTC)(In fact I should've done this from the first, as there were a great deal more of both in book 1 compared to book 3 where I am now. "Pogrom" and "Buddhism", memorably.)
"Semmit" is an old Scots term for vest, and "fremescent" means "becoming murmurous, roaring", as in crowd noise. Which is a really good word!