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* '''first-fruits:''' the fruits first gathered in a season; payment in the form of first crops of a season to a superior; annates, or one year's income of a benefice in England and Wales, paid to the Crown from 1535 to 1703 and thereafter to Queen Anne's Bounty → [[quainance bandy]]
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* '''first-fruits:''' the fruits first gathered in a season; payment in the form of first crops of a season to a superior; annates, or one year's income of a benefice in England and Wales, paid to the Crown from 1535 to 1703 and thereafter to Queen Anne's Bounty → during Queen Anne's reign (1702-1714), Jonathan Swift was in London, unsuccessfully urging upon the Whig administration of Lord Godolphin the claims of the Irish clergy to the First-Fruits and Twentieths ("Queen Anne's Bounty"), which brought in about £2,500 a year, already granted to their brethren in England  → [[quainance bandy]]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fruits Wikipedia]
  
 
* '''Jewish Day of First Fruits'''
 
* '''Jewish Day of First Fruits'''
  
* '''fluting:''' playing the flute → this paragraph contains a musical foliation
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* '''fluting:''' playing the flute → this paragraph contains a musical foliation → music is being played by the military band during a Military Review in the Phoenix Park
  
 
* '''rooting'''
 
* '''rooting'''

Latest revision as of 07:29, 22 October 2010

  • first-fruits: the fruits first gathered in a season; payment in the form of first crops of a season to a superior; annates, or one year's income of a benefice in England and Wales, paid to the Crown from 1535 to 1703 and thereafter to Queen Anne's Bounty → during Queen Anne's reign (1702-1714), Jonathan Swift was in London, unsuccessfully urging upon the Whig administration of Lord Godolphin the claims of the Irish clergy to the First-Fruits and Twentieths ("Queen Anne's Bounty"), which brought in about £2,500 a year, already granted to their brethren in England → quainance bandy
  • Jewish Day of First Fruits
  • fluting: playing the flute → this paragraph contains a musical foliation → music is being played by the military band during a Military Review in the Phoenix Park
  • rooting
  • frute: frog, toad
  • firstling: the first of its kind to be produced, to come into being or to appear; the first product or result of anything