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So if it doesn't exist what's it doing there in World Wide Words?
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it exists it just ain't real.
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well, I've heard of castanets being called "little black beetle(s)", but "horse chestnuts?"<br><br>canasta, anyone?<br><br> This is "Horse Chess-nut":  Here's more info, if interested: Horse Chess-nut This was a city-wide "Horses on Parade" project in 2001.
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So if it doesn't exist what's it doing there in World Wide Words? it exists it just ain't real.
irrational, innit? 
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it exists it just ain't real. Oh see, the true philosopher! Ha!
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[=stuwm]your picture seems to be a crown, which this thing cap doesn't seem to be except for the 'crown of the head' part. OED does contain this note, which I don't find to be very helpful: (The two crowns [? of England and France] with which the bycoket of Henry VI was ‘garnished’ or ‘embroidered’, were, of course, no part of the ordinary bycoket.)
edit: here's an illlustration: link Yeh, it quite a silly King's bonnet but the word did exist in all its nonexistingness in that tekraszjne language. Nice costume site!(link)
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>the word did exist in all its nonexistingness in that tekraszjne language.
apparently you didn't note the bolded [EA] text in my purple prose. <sigh>
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I was blinded by the color purple of the prose. Sigh no more, I've seen it NOW
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So if it doesn't exist what's it doing there in World Wide Words? it exists it just ain't real.
irrational, innit? He didn't say it wasn't real; he said it didn't exist. This word is said not to exist. Oh, OK. He said it was "said not to exist." He still didn't say it wasn't real.
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