Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
canaille , 2.
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Examples
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Going northward, I remained a year or two, and on my return the "canell" was finished.
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1879
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There grow all manner of spicery, more plenteously than in any other country, as of ginger, cloves-gilofre, canell, seedwall, nutmegs and maces.
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For canell {e} is not so good in þis crafte & cur {e}.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Take the lire of the Deer oþer of the Roo parboile it on smale peces. seeþ it wel half in water and half in wyne. take brede and bray it wiþ the self broth and drawe blode þer to and lat it seeth to gedre with powdour fort of gynger oþer of canell [2]. and macys [3]. with a grete porcioun of vineger with Raysouns of Coraunte [4].
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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'To make Ypocrasse for lords with gynger, synamon, and graynes sugour, and turefoll: and for comyn pepull gynger canell, longe peper, and claryffyed hony.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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"canell?" and, above all, what manner of thing was a "Jeems and Kanawha Canell?"
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1879
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Kanawha canell "was going to - oh! it was going to do everything.
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1879
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