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cambric tea. sweet tea for children I remember reading Beatrix Potter's "Tale of Peter Rabbit" to my girls. Remember, because of his tummy ache from eating too much in Mr. McGregor's garden, his mother gave him cambric tea. Camelopardalis. Constellation near the Big Dipper cameral. Judge’s chamber/council camerlingo. The cardinal who manages the Pope’s affairs camion. Low sturdy wagon, truck camisa. Shirt or chemise camisado. Night attack (wore camisas) camise. House shirt or tunic camlet. Rich cloth of camel’s hair and silk Camlan. Legendary battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded. Camorra. Neopolitan secret society. campanile. Bell tower campanula. Bellflowers campanulate. Bell-shaped campestral. Pertaining to growing in open fields campestrian. Great Northern plains campion. Red, pink, or white flowers campylotropous. Ovule partly inverted and curved canaliculus. A small bodily channel, like a tear duct. cancellous. (To make a lattice) Netlike structure (bone) cancroid. Like a cancer or crab. candent. White-hot candleberry. Wax myrtle candlepin. Slender bowling pin. canescent. Turning white or grayish canicular. Pertaining to Dog Star canna. Tropical plant, showy red or yellow flowers. cannula. Tubular bodily-fluid drain canopic. Egyptian canorous. Melodious cant. Argot; also, whining, affected or sententious speech; tilted Cantabrigian. Cambridge cantabile. Smooth flowing style cantillate
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I'm disappointed that nobody corrected me about the tea his mother gave Peter Rabgit. It was chamomile. chamomile n. 5ME camomille < OFr camemile < L chamomilla < Gr chamaimclon, earth apple < chamai, on the ground (see CHAMELEON) + mclon, apple (see MELON)6 any plant of two genera (Anthemis and Matricaria) of the composite family, with strong-smelling foliage; esp., a plant (A. nobilis) whose dried, daisylike flower heads are used as a medicine and in making tea
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sorry Dr bill, there is a whole world of childrens literture i don't know.. neither of my parents ever read to me, (or my siblings, i wasn't singled out) and by the time i had the reading skills for books like Betrice Potter's, i was too old to enjoy them, same too for winnie the pooh.
My husband read to our kids, (he had 'bedtime' as his quality time with the kids) so i never read these books to my kids..
one of my favorite childhood books was an illustrated (with 16 color plates!) huge book of Grimm's fairytales. the first one i remember reading (chosen strictly by its length!) was 'The Swine Herders Daughter',(complete on one page) and the last, was 'the Snow Queen'(the longest!) i could read a bit by the time i started school.. words, not sentences.. and as my word vocabulary grew, i read more and more.. (i remember being bored with See Dick, see Jane.- they were too easy for me at that age.-- but i don't realy remember when i learned to read..
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As I glanced over your list again I thought of Simon & Garfunkel, Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme: "Tell her to make me a cambric shirt". I had a record of someone reading The Tales of Peter Rabbit. I don't have it any more, so I couldn't easily check on your tea reference!
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Dear of troy, and Bean: my feigned petualance was a ploy to provoke replies. I'm just remembering how sad I was that my oldest girl and her husband went to Canada because they could not afford farm land in US. So I never got to read the Beatrix Potter stories to my first grandchild.
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cambric is an even woven cloth, that has weft thread dyed (usually indigo, but any color will do) and warp threads of white. It is still commonly used for men's shirts. the crossed colored and white fabrics create a pastel, like shade. since the thread are 'dyed in the wool' they are color is stronger, and less likely to fade..
cambric tea is sweet( and that is a characteristic,) but it is also tea that is half (or more) milk.. i don't know if the cloth takes the name from the tea, or tea from the cloth(half white milk, half dark tea.?)
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AHD seems to think the tea name is from the fabric. They derive the fabric name from a Flemish version of the name of a town in northern France and the tea name because it is "thin and white" like the cloth.
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Canopic jars are the jars used for storing mummies' innards. Presumably named after Canopus the place, but why I don't know. Produced there? First archaeological discovery?
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From http://isis_athena1690.tripod.com/C.html "The name 'Canopic' comes from Greek Mythology. Canopus (Kanopus) was a steersman of the King Menelaus (Helen of Troy’s husband). They briefly stopped in Egypt on their way home from Troy. While there, Canopus insulted Theonoe, the daughter of Pharaoh Proteus. In retribution, he was bitten by a snake and died. He was buried at a city in the Nile Delta called Canopus (by the Greeks); modern day Abukir. It appears that there a cult of him grew up in the Greco-Roman period, where he was depicted as a jar with a human head. Because the statues of him were jar shaped, the early archaeologists confused the statues with the modernly known and completely unrelated 'Canopic Jars,' which contained the human viscera."
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he was depicted as a jar with a human head.
uh, why?
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