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purtenance
[ pur-tn-uhns ]
noun
- the liver, heart, and lungs of an animal.
purtenance
/ ˈɜːɪəԲ /
noun
- archaic.the inner organs, viscera
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of purtenance1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English purtenaunce, purtenans, shortening of appurtenance
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of purtenance1
C14: from Old French pertinance something that belongs; see appurtenance
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"The garden is best to be square," was Lord Bacon's rule; "the form that men like in general is a square, though roundness be forma perfectissima," was Lawson's rule; and this form was chosen because the garden was considered to be a purtenance and continuation of the house, designed so as strictly to harmonize with the architecture of the building.
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Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
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