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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2416872, member: 5833&quot;]I heard the word &#039;plate&#039; used in the older sense last night in a production of Shakespeare&#039;s Richard II, when the king announces his intention to take all the goods of the late John of Gaunt, among the things on the list of what he plans to confiscate is all of Gaunt&#039;s &#039;plate&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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