araphostic
English
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[edit]araphostic (not comparable)
- Alternative form of araphorostic
- 1828, Hugo's Cordial Drops for the Country, page 4:
- For the New University what a prognostic, When the shoe-makers call certain shoes Araphostic!
- 1833, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 34 , page 674:
- Greek was made fashionable a few years ago by the Phil-Hellenists—araphostic sandals were worn by every body
References
[edit]- ^ William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “araphostic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- ^ Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1906)