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Alice in Wonderland vocabulary

39 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.

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cat

^{image: by Eugene Delacroix (this cat is likely named "Toonces")}
^{https://www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-delacroix/cat-head}

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"Pierre," cried the host, "change this gentleman's plate, and give him a side-piece of this rabbit au-chat."

"This what?" said I.

"This rabbit au-chat."

"Why, thank you—upon second thoughts, no. I will just help myself to some of the ham."

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)

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So she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book.

Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)

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