Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw: A Treasury of Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

By David N. Durant

Book Overview

Who was a tweenie? How did an ice house work and where would you find a crinkum-crankum wall? What was a chesterfield for, or a Claude glass, and how did a clock jack improve your dinner? The answers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031215688X
• ISBN13: 9780312156886
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"