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The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

Note 27 — PLAYING-CARDS.

James Dafforne translation

The English “knave” is only our old equivalent for the German knabe, and had originally the same meaning of servant; it is also nearly similar in sense to the French valet.—[Tr.]

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