Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Of potential interest...

Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=739

See also:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=58675
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6727713.stm

Includes many items not (yet) in the OED, such as the intriguingly
named "zoobditty match" ("a rich sauce or pickle based on fish, which
came from India and was popular at fashionable tables in the late
eighteenth century").


--Ben Zimmer

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