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qroqqa commented on the word winterset
Surely the hard blue winterset
Must have conveyed a message to him—
—Lawrence Durrell, 'On First Looking into Loeb's Horace'
Lots of ghits for proper names, but none I can see for a common noun; also not in OED, so I suspect a nonce-coinage of Durrell's. (But what would the places be named for?)
March 17, 2009