Antedating of "Fox-Hole"

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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> _fox-hole_ _up_ to its old _height_


The semantics of Classical Latin is strong within him.

_altitudo_ "height, depth"


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