WHITE BIRD
1885 … If miners see white birds about the gearing of mine-shafts they consider them to be harbingers of disaster.
– A Dictionary of Superstitions edited by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem.
Tag Archives: archaism
almoner. One who dispenses alms to the poor on behalf of a monarch.
– The Continuum Dictionary of Religion edited by Michael Pye.
gesta: Deeds or tales of adventure, as in the fourteenth-century Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy. One of the most famous medieval collections of tales was the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans).
– Literary Terms : A Dictionary by Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz.