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Re: Delf


Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com

> A delf is a square.  Vert a delf or means "Green, a gold square"

Specifically, a square hole, like a ditch.

The word is related to "delve", as in the old poem:

  One, two, buckle my shoe.
  ...
  Eleven, twelve, dig and delve.
  ...

-- Alfredo
(former denizen of the Barony of Delftwood, AEthelmearc, East)
 
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
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