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A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1

Note 48 — Chapter II

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There is one admirable word here, enbarnis,> which has so long been lost to French that it is not even in Littré. But Dryden's "burnish into man" probably preserves it in English; for this is certainly not the other "burnish" from brunir.

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