Note 11 — LETTER IX. TO JAMES STEVENSON, ESQ.
Reading edition
“Decoration” is the proper word, I believe, for the badges of an order; the French, however, frequently term them crachats, or le crachat du roi, the king’s spittle!
Reading edition
“Decoration” is the proper word, I believe, for the badges of an order; the French, however, frequently term them crachats, or le crachat du roi, the king’s spittle!