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viking (paid)

  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

21 Mar 2025 • 6 min read
B&W photo of a cat in a winged viking helmet and scale-mail breastplate, with the caption “Brünnhilde"

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Photo of an ornate horse-drawn carriage with driver and footmen in 18th-century dress

coach

Coach is a word with two very different primary meanings. Etymologically coach is probably a single word, connected through use in university slang, although it is possible that the two meanings have different origins. The older of the two meanings is that of a means of conveyance, originally a horse-drawn
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Medieval illustration of merchants selling a variety of wares to customers
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Middle Ages / medieval (paid)

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little black book

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