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rostrum

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Searchable Lemmata: rostrum (L).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Footwear; pike, elongated point of a shoe.(1388 - circa 1475)
1. A Pyke of A sho ... Rostrum Gloss. (dating uncertain) [MED *Cath.Angl. ((Add 15562) 95a) circa 1475]
c.f.: pike
L.
Sex: Male    Use: Secular    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical L rostrum, in specialised usage. Although used to refer to a platform for public speaking, the Latin word also referred to the peaked or pointed prow of a ship (which were used to decorate Roman rostra) and this sense led to the equation with ME pike. Attested 1388 and 15th cent. (Latham, s.v. 'rostr/um', p. 411).
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