serendipidous --> freeholder

[Victor Steinbok]

I don't know--I kind of like OED's "other" interpretation:

> a man whose wife allows him to remain indefinitely in a tavern or
> alehouse (and may accompany him there)

It's listed as obsolete, but still...

     VS-)

On 2/8/2012 3:16 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Useful history here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_chosen_freeholders

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