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- noun Plural form of
abodement .
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It was at a wedding feast that "they called for Dates and Quinces in the pastry;" and Brand quotes a curious passage from the "Praise of Musicke," 1586 ( "Romeo and Juliet" was published in 1596) -- "I come to marriages, wherein as our ancestors did fondly, and with a kind of doting, maintaine many rites and ceremonies, some whereof were either shadowes or abodements of a pleasant life to come, as the eating of a Quince Peare to be a preparative of sweet and delightful dayes between the married persons."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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