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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: Re: Bunting
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:07:40 -0000
References: <003901c48303$96f69720$2f10383e@GeoffBlaxall>


Hello again,

If you go to this web site, and put the word, bunting, into each category,
you will find several "definitions," most matching what has already been
discussed:

http://www.bartleby.com/


(BUNTING is also a surname.)


Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)


P.S. In the USA, especially in New England, we refer to a piece of
furniture in our dining rooms (or sometimes the living room) as "a hutch."
A storage/display piece with cabinets below and shelves above - where you
display your decorative plates.

P.S.2 There's a great old movie-musical from the 1940's, possibly, where
there are several references to the "scullery maid." I remember having
to take out my dictionary to find out what a "scullery" was.

"Collegiate Dictionary" a room for cleaning and storing dishes and cooking
utensils and for doing messy kitchen work.

I think in the movie it was a separate room in the cellar ... (definitely
not part of the regular kitchen of the house)






----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Lewin BLAXALL" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: Bunting


> Maybe I'm a bit thick, but Bunting for me has always been those itsy bitsy
flag-like squares & triangles on long tapes that one strings up on VE-Day,
VJ-Day and similar village jaunts/celebrations ???
>
> Geoff Lewin BLAXALL
> Hextable, Kent, S.E. England
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