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Michael:
Re: abditory
Faint praise indeed...thus if I am not totally incorrect, I must be close to correct. Thanks.
You librarians scare me a little !
I really do like biblioabditory - but of course I like nearly everything that has the prefix 'biblio' !
Richard
Richard Cady Rare Books
Prescott, AZ
Michael Morrice <morrice@CIX.CO.UK> wrote:
The Oxford English Dictionary makes no mention of 'articles of value'.
Merely 'A concealed repository' from the Latin abdere 'to hide'. So,
although it is not specific to books, Richard Cady would not seem to be
incorrect.
Michael Morrice
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