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BISTRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 12 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BISTRE , the See also:

French name of a See also:

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SOOT (0. Eng. sot, cf. Icel. sot, Dan. sod; possibly from root sed, to sit)

soot of See also:

wood, now largely superseded by See also:

INDIAN

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INK (from Late Lat. encaustum, Gr. gysavorov, the purple ink used by Greek and Roman emperors, from iyKaiew, to burn in)

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