Note E149 — 34.
Reading edition
"Chestnuts." Often spelt, but improperly, chesnut, as though the cheese-like nut. From the O. Fr. Chastaigne, and the Ital. Castagna, we learn its true derivation, namely from Castanæa in Thessaly, its native place.
Reading edition
"Chestnuts." Often spelt, but improperly, chesnut, as though the cheese-like nut. From the O. Fr. Chastaigne, and the Ital. Castagna, we learn its true derivation, namely from Castanæa in Thessaly, its native place.