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Rotten Row is said to be a corruption of OFr route le roi or route du roi, because it was on the route from Westminster to the royal forests.

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  1. The rootstock of the brake, Pteris aquilina, var. esculenta, which when roasted was formerly a staple article of food with the aborigines of New Zealand.

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  • Rotten Row is said to be a corruption of OFr route le roi or route du roi, because it was on the route from Westminster to the royal forests. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3
  • By the time Helena published her memoirs in 1935, her brother Walter was seventy-five years old and a British icon hailed by young artists as the roi, or king. —  Portrait of a Killer
  • “Vive le roi,” a stentorian voice, close to the royal carriage, shouted out, “Not so: Vive la nation!” and the queen, though it was plain that the ruffian had been hired thus to outrage them, almost fainted with terror at his ferocity. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • [3] “A quatre heures la reine sortit de la chambre du roi, et vint nous dire qu'elle n'esperait plus rien; que M. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • (1792); vice-roi d'Irlande, il réprima la rébellion de 1798. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
 

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