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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This from a student paper:
“In the Middle Ages, women were placed on a petal stool.”
This is my first post to this forum; I would be interested in any other instances of this oddly imaginative construction.
—JVH
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PS I see from a quick scroll-down that there has been an entry only one letter off but that evokes completely different mental imagery: “pedal stool.”
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