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lordsknight185
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 06 May 2009 : 20:01:30
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Ok so by cover a lame subject, but i have reasons.
My cousin is in the planning stages of her first novel when she hit a snag. WHAt are french braids called in the realms?
WE search for real-world alternatives for the name "french braid" But since the french braid was made by a frenchmen no other name exists
The snag? There is no france in faerun.
She said it would have no troubles simply describing it, But i wanted to look upon my elders to see if they had anyt houghts on teh matter.
--Johnny
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 May 2009 : 20:31:00
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| I can't recall any lore about this, I'd ask this in Ed's thread. I'm thinking he probably has thought about this and he could give you an answer. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 07 May 2009 : 00:37:59
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And to keep the scrolls neat and tidy, here's Ed's reply:-
"lordsknight185, I can tell you that the classic (single, down the back) French braid is known in the Realms as a "tail plait" because it is a plait (even in our real world, it's sometimes called a French plait) and because it resembles the way the wealthy and/or nobility in certain long-ago kingdoms of the Realms (and much of Chessenta and Tethyr, still, in the Realms of today) braided the manes and tails of their horses.
And, no, Ed is NOT equating women with horses, though I note in the most innocent of tones that we can both be ridden
(and ridden hard, and put away wet, and I'd better stop now before we get to show jumping . . .)
love to all,
THO" |
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Hair styles.
