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+ | **(from Irish fionndruine; Joyce’s ''Letters'', I.348: 16/10/34 to Giorgio and Helen Joyce: 'A 30-year wedding should be called a 'findrinny' one. Findrinny is a kind of white gold mixed with silver') | ||
* '''findruine:''' (''Irish'') silver-bronze; a precious metal of uncertain nature | * '''findruine:''' (''Irish'') silver-bronze; a precious metal of uncertain nature |
Revision as of 00:35, 4 June 2020
- findrinny: (Anglo-Irish) silver-bronze, white bronze
- (from Irish fionndruine; Joyce’s Letters, I.348: 16/10/34 to Giorgio and Helen Joyce: 'A 30-year wedding should be called a 'findrinny' one. Findrinny is a kind of white gold mixed with silver')
- findruine: (Irish) silver-bronze; a precious metal of uncertain nature