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a garde -robe morphed into a cloakroom-- which, i suspect now ... is actually 2 separate Rooms-- One for cloaks, and one with "facilities".
Isn't it interesting that a place to check your coat is a "Cloakroom?" Anyone else wear, or even *own, a cloak?
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well--actually--i do own a heavy black wool irish cloak-- It has a deep hood, and is fastened at the neck with a broach-- It about 15 years old-- and i wear it a couple of time a year-- (you need long gloves-- and you can't drive a car in it)
but i don't own any frocks!
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I, by contrast, own a clook, made of woal, with a hoad, fastened at the neck with a brooch.
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i do own a heavy black wool irish cloak-- It has a deep hood, and is fastened at the neck with a broach-- It about 15 years old-Ah HA ... a Kinsale cloak ?? I have one, of heavy wool melton, made in Ireland during my 1971 visit at a shop succinctly named "The Cloak",a duplicate of the Kinsale Cloak owned by the Grandmother of the lady tailor. The cloaks are still worn by women in Kinsale, Ireland. If you go to Ireland it's a lovely town, much larger and more modern than the Kinsale I visited in 1971 but the cloaks do remain as do the "Spanish" steps between houses, up the *steep hills. Kinsale was well known even in '71 for its fine food! P.S. Max : Superman wore a cape ... big difference!
For a photo: http://www.wingsandroses.com/kinsale.htm or go to Google and type in "Kinsale Cloak"
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In reply to:
Anyone else wear, or even *own, a cloak?
Alas no, but it was something I always wanted as a teenager.
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I, by contrast, own a clook, made of woal, with a hoad, fastened at the neck with a brooch.My dearest Centalian advocate, I hate to broach this subject, but now that you've lost your r's, you seem to be cornfusing your o's and a's. (Did you notice that I (re) covered your r's?  )
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I may have occasional trouble with my r's, a's and o's, but at least I dot my i's, cross my t's, and mind my p's and q's, as distinct from my y's, which, together with my wherefores, I never mind. Time [yawn emoticon] to get some z's I think.
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In this part of the world, the firemen hook up to a fire hydrant (formally) or fire plug (informally). A standpipe is a large pipe with big connectors like a fire plug which is found on the side of a building -- a sport of horizontal fire plug which happens to be jutting out of a building wall.
Water in the house comes from the water heater through the spigot (pronounced 'spicket') into the sink (pronounced 'zinc' in Baltimore), bathtub, shower, or laundry tub (a large deep sort of sink found in the basement, or cellar, and used for laundry purposes), sometimes, if plural, called by older persons 'laundry trays'. (These were originally used with the old wringer washers to rinse clothes in.) And if you are a navy or sailing type, the bathroom/loo/cloakroom/toilet may be called the 'head', where you will find the commode, or toilet. [An aside: when we were children, we sometimes had pie a la mode for dessert, which we would call "pie out of the commode" and screech with laughter for a good half hour.]
Here's another set of words for the same thing: in our living room we have a couch, also called a sofa, or what my father would have called a davenport. There is also the recliner, but that's not quite the same thing.
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