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Dutch for a "decorative German or Dutch-style piece of furniture that combines aspects of a wardrobe, curio, and cabinet", the kind of furniture that is called a "shrank" in English. This was removed by a user who said "Removed all the references to the Dutch language. Pennsylvania Dutch is a German descendant not a Dutch one." However, Pennsylvania German's descent from German rather than Dutch does not prevent the Dutch from also having a word "shrank". The question is whether they actually do or not... - -sche (discuss) 16:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
- Nope. Native schrank (with expected sch- instead of English sh-) apparently does exist, but it does not have the meaning found at shrank. — Kleio (t · c) 17:10, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 06:30, 17 July 2017 (UTC)