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OP dragoon
[From French dragon (dragon, to dragoon).]
dragon
A Dutch word is written exactly alike, but dragon stands for a green kitchen herb (Engl. tarragon) of the Artemisia famliy. (good combination freshly used with chicken) .
Cultivated in kitchengardens, growing in the wild in Greece for certain .
Dragoon also found its way to the lowland- language as dragonder : old word for soldier.
Dragon.
From M.L. tragonia, from Byzantine Gk. tarchon, from Arabic tarkhon, from a non-Arabic source, perhaps Gk. drakon (from drakontion "dragonwort"). Eastern European plant of the wormwood genus (Artemisia Dracunculus), whose aromatic leaves were used for flavoring (especially vinegar). Cf. Sp. taragona, It. targone, Fr. estragon.
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