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tnre of woollen and silk. — In bawdehin, an old English word for a 

 rich embroidered stuff used in the manufacture of copes and portable 

 canopies, we have preserved baldacchino, properly fabric of Baldacco, 

 i. e. Bagdad. Baldacchino now, as tourists know, is the permanent 

 canopy over the principal altar in an Italian church. — Our soft word 

 velvet is the Italian velluto, derived from Latin villutus, suggestive 

 of the villi, or hair-like filaments which constitute the surface of 

 velvet. — Tassel we take from iassello, but we develope from it a 

 sense somewhat of our own. It denotes in Italian a peg (Latin tax^ 

 illus). There is perhaps a reference to the little wooden forms which 

 sometimes constitute the interior of tassels and other ornamental 

 pendants of silk. Laccia (from Latin laqueus noose) gives us lace 

 in shoe-lace &c , and latcJiet. Galoschia we make galosh. It is 

 properly Gallica, a Gallic shoe, a term employed by Cicero. (Phil. 

 2. 30, TQ)— Traps and trappings (as in horse-trappings) may come 

 from drappe, Italian clothes. — In colours, Italian has helped us to 

 bay from halo, (whence also bajoccho, from the colour of the coin) i 

 brown, so far as Sraww-study is concerned, from broncio morose look ;, 

 crimson and cramoisie (from carmesino, and this from Tcerniez, Arab., 

 the cochineal insect ;) carmine is from the same root ; lalie [and lac- 

 quer] (from lacca, Persian, lalt) ; maroon (from marrone, thechesnut); 

 sorrel (from sauro connected with a Teutonic root denoting to dry up 

 ov sear) ; yellow (from giallo, i.e., if we do not ourselves also get it 

 from the Teutonic gelo). Dyed in grain is properly in scarlet, from 

 arana, Italian, a scarlet berry ; late Latin grana, lu. granuni. Hence 

 Italian granata, granate or garnet stone, and Spanish ipome-granate. 

 Cornelian is from Italian corniola, — from cornu, referring to the 

 nail — as owf, onyx-^ioxiQ. 



Italian lies hid in several English words which relate to cooking 

 and eating, to viands and condiments. Kitchen, to begin with, is 

 the Italian cucina, Latin coquina, root coqu-,cook) . The Anglo- 

 Saxon cycene was learned from the monasteries. The celebrated 

 Cohaygne was properly Cuccagna, a Utopia of kitchen-stuff and good 

 things generally. {Macaroon and macaroni are reported to be con- 

 nected with macaria blessedness.) To dine (intermediately, of course, 

 from the Prench diner) is the Italian desinare, wliich has been de- 

 rived from "Diguare," the first word of a " Grace before Meat." — 

 Banquet is banchetto and refers strictly to- the arrangement of the 

 tables and benches, for the guests. The root of the Italian is, how- 



