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they're all english

- peplum - late 17th century: via Latin from Greek peplos .

- boucle - late 19th century: French, literally ‘buckled, curled’.

- pessary - late Middle English: from late Latin pessarium, based on Greek pessos ‘oval stone’ (used in board games).

- doula - 1960s: modern Greek, from Greek doulē ‘female slave’.

- chignon - late 18th century: from French, originally ‘nape of the neck’, based on Latin catena ‘chain’.

- tulle - early 19th century: from Tulle, a town in SW France, where it was first made.

etc

parent eckmLJE 4 years ago

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