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Examples
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One day Liir and a couple of pettys were sent to collect fresh water at the foot of a wooded dale.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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‘Payn puffe, and pety-pettys, and cuspis and doucettis,’ are mentioned among the last dishes of
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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But i don't look at pettys 7 cups as being comparable to Earnhardts.
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I suppose they were pies, perhaps _The Pety Peruaunt_ of note 2 above; or better still, the fish-pies, _Petipetes_ (or _pety-pettys_ of the last note), which Randle Holme says ‘are Pies made of Carps and
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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