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in like manner with this wood he caused to be covered the sterns, stems, cook-rooms, decks, courses, and bends

Original French:  pareillement d’icelluy feiſt couurir les pouppes, prores, fougons, tillacs, courſies, & rambardes

Modern French:  pareillement d’icelluy feist couvrir les pouppes, prores, fougons, tillacs, coursies, & rambardes


prores

Proues.

François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Œuvres de F. Rabelais
L. Jacob, editor
Paris: Charpentier, 1840

fougons

Cuisines.

François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Œuvres de F. Rabelais
L. Jacob, editor
Paris: Charpentier, 1840

coursies

Galeries pratiquées de la prou à la poupe d’une galère.

François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Œuvres de F. Rabelais
L. Jacob, editor
Paris: Charpentier, 1840

rambardes

Garde-fou de la [?] dunette

François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Œuvres de F. Rabelais
L. Jacob, editor
Paris: Charpentier, 1840

courses

Fr. Coursies, the passage-planks (1-1/2 ft. broad), from stem to stern, between the rowers of a galley.

François Rabelais [ca. 1483–ca. 1553]
Gargantua and Pantagruel
William Francis Smith, translator
London, 1893

Bends

Fr. rambades

François Rabelais [ca. 1483–ca. 1553]
Gargantua and Pantagruel
William Francis Smith, translator
London, 1893

rambades

Rambarde: f. The bend, or wale of a Galley.

Randle Cotgrave [–1634?]
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongue
London: Adam Islip, 1611
PBM

prores, fougons, coursies, rambades

Prores: Proue. Néologisme; du lat. prora, même sens.
Fougons: Cuisine. Du véntien fogon.
Coursies: Passerelle allant de la poupe à la proue d’une galère, entre les bancs des rameurs. De l’italien corsia.
Rambades: Château d’avant. De l’italien rambata.

François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Oeuvres. Tome Cinquieme: Tiers Livre
Abel Lefranc, editor
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1931
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Posted 10 February 2013. Modified 25 January 2015.

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