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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14

Note 207 — SCENE III.

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The etymology of this word is doubted; but as it was not used in English until about the time of the Restoration, it is most probably from the French gentil, and not from the Teutonic.—Collier. [The word is sometimes, but incorrectly, spelt jaunty.]

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