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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote in [community profile] 1word1day 2024-12-18 02:41 pm (UTC)

I learned this word from 1066 and All That, where it's recorded that Henry I of England died of "a surfeit of palfreys." It was years before I learned about the extra layers of jokes in that line.

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