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findrinny

English edit

Etymology edit

From Irish fiondruine, a decorative white bronze used on bracelets and shields.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

findrinny (uncountable)

  1. White bronze.
  2. A kind of red bronze. [2]
    • 1889: A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode / On a horse with a bridle of findrinny — WB Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin, Book 1

References edit

  1. ^ Ferocious Alphabets, Denis Donoghue, 1984, Columbia University Press, pp. 4-6.
  2. ^ Poems[1], W. B. Yeats, 1895, Glossary, p.283., retrieved 30June2011
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