Difference between revisions of "Findrinny Fair"

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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')

findrinny: William Butler Yeats uses this word in _The Wanderings of Oisin_.

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	* '''findruine:''' (''Irish'') silver-bronze; a precious metal of uncertain nature		* '''findruine:''' (''Irish'') silver-bronze; a precious metal of uncertain nature
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		+	* '''findrinny:''' William Butler Yeats uses this word in _The Wanderings of Oisin_.