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Sideboard is perhaps the nearest equivalent.

Footnote 139:

See note.

Footnote 140:

See note.

Footnote 141:

Tunic or shirt, lit. petticoat.

Footnote 142:

Short stockings, that covered the feet, and reached to the ankle, just above the shoe (avant-pied).

Footnote 143:

Cap or cape to wear in the house.

Footnote 144:

A kind of silk.

Footnote 145:

Scarlet cloth.

Footnote 146:

Crimson cloth.

Footnote 147:

See note.

Footnote 148:

Sheet at the head of the bed.

Footnote 149:

First, carpets; second, tapestries. The Book of Courtesy has tapetis, Fr. tapis.

Footnote 150:

See note.

Footnote 151:

See note on these various herbs.

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