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Cheese, in the scuse of a thing, or rather. the same fashion except the Scotch pisid, of "the very thing," must be ranked as which held its own. Somewhat similar is slang too, though very common. The slang Calion, originally a fine cotton cloth in dictionaries give fanciful derivations, from ported from Calicut. This place is called Anglo-Saxon roots, or suggest that it in a Calicot by the natives and may have drop perromion of "chose," but it is a common ped the final T though the influence of Hindustani word for a thing, and when an French dressmakers Chintz is another Englishman in India finds some articlo example, being the Hindustani word which exactly suits his purpose and or "cbeeat," which means a spotted cotton chairs, "Ah that's the cheese,” no cu* In trade fabricy are always des needs to ask the derivation. If it did-not cribed in the plural and the Zin Chints is come to us directly from India, then it no doak:■ perversion, through misunder- came through the Gypsies, for it is one of standing of the terminal S. Las is another the many Hindustani words which occur in Indian word which has retained its own their language. Another word that came mashing, but it has gone beyond it and from India indirectly is Caste, but it is of Portuguese origin. The early Portuguese given rise to a verb "to lacquer."""
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