from a site Faldage posted over in Q & A:

Barry Harridge reports that in Chambers "the eight spellings of CATERCORNER are surpassed by the number of variants for GALLABEA which can also be spelled gallabeah,gallabia, gallabiah, gallabieh, gallabiya, gallabiyah, gallabiyeh, galabea, galabeah, galabia, galabiah, galabieh, galabiya, galabiyah, galabiyeh. "And what does it mean? Why it means a DJELLABA which can also be spelt DJELLABAH or JELLABA or JELAB -- a cloak with a hood and wide sleeves."

the site is:

http://plex.us/archives/word.html




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