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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Archaic words
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:49:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-11, Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm reading Fletcher Pratt's _The Well of the Unicorn_, and have
> stumbled over "deserion", "deese", and "tercia". From context, I
> think that all of them are military terms. Maybe

Merriam-Webster's Unabriged has this entry:

tercio  or  tercia : a Spanish or Italian infantry regiment of the
16th and 17th century

(literally "third")

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de