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Ulysses vocabulary
17 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)
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privily
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synonyms: sub rosa, clancular, in petto, hugger-mugger ???
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also spelled prively
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Ful priuely* knokken at his Wyndowe *Note that the strange "p" is a ligature for "pri"
That stant ful lowe, vp on his boures Wal
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. p 107
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
privily is used in The Canterbury Tales 60 times.
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he never drank no manner of mead which he then put by and anon full privily he voided the more part in his neighbour glass and his neighbour nist not of this wile.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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