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sionnach commented on the word scandaroon
a homing pigeon, named after the Turkish seaport city of Iskanderun
October 26, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word scandaroon
...which appears in the Indiana Jones trilogy, doesn't it? (The town, not necessarily the bird.)
I had no idea this word existed.
October 26, 2007
mikeropology commented on the word scandaroon
Ah, yes.. Iskanderun was mentioned in Indian Jones and the Last Crusade!
December 14, 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word scandaroon
(noun) - A variety of carrier pigeon, presumably from Scanderoon, the name of a seaport in Syria. Perhaps so called from the fact that "formerly the pigeon was employed by the English factory at Scanderoon to carry intelligence of the arrival of their ships in that port to Aleppo" according to the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, 1845. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914
January 27, 2018