question from another list about 'takras'

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 3, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> Hm! I'd never heard of the "ice breakup" meaning of "debacle". Thanks.
>
> (And... there it is in the OED.)
>
--and both of the "trans. and fig." cites (with no ice-breakup involved), the first from Thackeray's _Vanity Fair_, are spelled with the original French acute and circumflex accents in place. Seems like one or two naturalized cites might be called for.

LH

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