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More Ellis Peters (from "The Sanctuary Sparrow" this time):
But the sound was drawing nearer. Even before it grew so loud as to compel notice there was no mistaking the anger in it, the menace and the dangerous excitement, all the marks of the hunt. It sounded as if the pursuit had reached the point where the van chasseours hand run the quarry to exhaustion, and the parfytours were closing in for the kill. Even at this distance it was clear that some creature's life was in peril.
Chasseours is obviously a variant of chasseurs, but what are parfytours?
And from the same work:
The house was full of people, they crowded me, and the young fellows, they were drunk and lungeous, they hustled me. A juggler needs room! It was not my fault the pitcher was broken.
Lungeous -- from lunge? Given to lungeing? Is this a real word?
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