What did “
pan
”
mean
?
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"In Germany we are almost always in the stove, the whole family is in the stove", he is given as an example in the fifth edition of the
Dictionary of the French Academy
published in 1798. One might think that it is. This is a parodic version of the assassinations of Landru guillotined in 1922.
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Similarly spelling,
stove
benefits in the same edition of another definition that can surprise us, as its use is virtually lost, "
Stove
: yet said if the veil that fits on the head of married during part of the Mass which is said for the nuptial blessing.
[…] “He was put under the stove,” says children born before marriage, who have been recognized and legitimized by spreading the stove over them at the wedding ceremony.
Such uses deserve comment, before quickly evoking, in the feminine, "
the
" pan in which the pancakes are turned.
So what is the etymological origin of these
stoves
, given to the masculine?
What is the origin of the word "stove"?
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