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Examples
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When I was chatting at the Eisteddfod I heard someone conjugate lico to make Licwn i I would like – albeit not while onstage in the main pavilion.
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So why would I say lico or licio when I could say hoffi like?
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If þou wilt in flesshe day. seeþ Capouns and take the brawnn and tese hem smal and do þerto. and make the lico [2] of þis broth.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Anon. Von der langen dauer der baume, und von den proben die uns das alterthum hiervon an die hand giebt. (e gal - lico» in Journal Helvetiquç.)
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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The habit of this greafy Don was very proper for a fcaramouch, or merry-andrew; being a dirty ca - lico, with all the tawdry trappings of a fool's coat, fuch as hanging fleeves, taffety, and cuts and flaflies almoft on every fide: it covered a rich taffety veil, as greafy as a butcher, and which teftified, that his honour muft needs be a moft exquifite floven.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Of York ... 1790
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The habit of this greafy Don was very proper for a fcaramouch, or merry-andrew; being a dirty ca - lico, with all the tawdry trappings of a fool's coat, fuch as hanging fleeves, taffety, and cuts and flafhes almoft on every fide: it covered a rich taflfety veft, as greafy as a butcher, and which teftified, that his honour muft needs be a moft exquifite floven.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Of York, Mariner. Who Lived Eight ... 1790
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The lico/hoffi thing is a milestone on many a learner’s journey.
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For to kepe in you {re} powdurs/also þe lico {ur} þ {er} in to renne wheñ þ {a} t nede be; to iij. basou {n} s ye must haue iij bagges renners/so clepe ham we,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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„ lico ipfius populi ac legitime celebrato • .. non fine fummo ac fauorabili conuocatorum
Notitia historico-literaria de codicibvs manvscriptis in Bibliotheca liberi ac imperialis ... Benedictine abbey : Augsburg, Germany 1791
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o c c o c o the coast of the province of S. Carolina, between the islands of llatteros and cape Core This island forms the e. side of the entrance into Pam - lico sound, which entrance or inlet Ijears the same name.
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