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| - And therefore many of these new words, such as coffee, chocolate, drapery, boot, omelette or balcony, were those used in shops or other public places - drinking houses, tailors, shoemakers or barbers.Lexicographer as storytellerUnlike earlier texts written by Mulcaster and Cawdrey, the 'Glossographia'provided a substantial, and often complex, definition for each word - sometimes Blount seems more
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