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other material. Thus, while the last-named region has given us, 

 herseymere, and the French, casimir, drugget is said to be due to 

 Brogheda. Intermediate points have done similar service. For 

 example, Cyprus is the source of the old vrord cypres or cipresse, for 

 crape (Fr. crespe). 



" Come away, come away, Death, 

 And in sad cypres let me be laid." 



— Shakspeare. 

 "Flowing, with majestic train, 



And sable stole of cypres lawn." 



— Milt, n Penseroso. 

 The word has been transformed by modern editors into the less 

 dubious shapes cypress and Cyprus. — Canopiis, the luxurious city of 

 the Nile, has probably affected the orthography of "cauopy." It 

 ought, according to its etymology, to be " conopy," irom condps, a 

 mosquito. A canopy is, in the first instance, a bed provided with a 

 mosquito-net. 



From the French moire, lustre, ruban, we have invented inohair, 

 lutestring, riband and ribbon. Even the 6?^-jerkin of our forefathers 

 was a vernacularism from the French, and had reference to the ani- 

 mal out of whose hide it was made ; the consumption of whose fibre 

 is supposed to contribute so largely to the national energy. 



Galoshes, vulgarly sometiines gallo-sJioes, are, through the French 

 the Late-Latin calopedia, a vernacularism for the Greek Jcalopodiar 

 3. e. sabots or clogs, literally "shoes made of wood" (^«/o«=wood); 

 thus, calopedia, calop'dia, galoclie. Some deduce the wordjfrora Gal- 

 ■lica, solea being understood. If this did not suffice, a suggestion 

 might be ofi"ered of caliga, " the boot of the private soldier," from 

 which Caius CaBsar Caligula had his military sobriquet. 



"Spectacles," for "glasses," is the French "besides" vernacu- 

 larized ; and " besides " is a popular derivative of his-cyclus, a term 

 having reference to the large circular lenses {lunettes, "little moons,") 

 formerly used. — In association with this word, note that "Cyclops" 

 is a Hellenic vernacularism. The Cycl- is now declared to have 

 nothing to do with cyclus, but to be rather the old word codes, i.e., 

 "blind." (J'ldie New Cratylus, p. 254.)— " Spectacles " in French 

 are also hinocles, i. e., " binoculars," somewhat rubbed. This fine 

 scientific term has given rise in English to the vulgarism " bar- 

 nacles." 



5. We come now to vernacularized names, technical and other 

 terms. 



