Shane Castle
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In your "five gods" stories, you use the word "vail" as a noun in a way that implies a gratuity or emolument, but the only definition I can find suggests its usage was as a verb, meaning to show submission or respect, typically by removing a hat. How did you come by your usage of this word?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Georgette Heyer uses it this way in her Regency historical fiction. It was probably period slang if used that way, but archaic enough for my purpose. "Tip" being way too modern in terminology, although certainly not in fact.
(Emolument might also have done, or, giggling about its use in Love's Labours Lost, remuneration, but vail is a shorter word.)
Ta, L.
(Emolument might also have done, or, giggling about its use in Love's Labours Lost, remuneration, but vail is a shorter word.)
Ta, L.
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