NOVEL PHILOLOGY.
{To He Editor of the Wesiport Times.) Sib, —Tour Charleston contempoI *My has again enriched our vernacular. I In the leader of to-day appears a new I word—" canvassture." I have heard I °f candidature, but never before of
canvassture. Does " canvassture," I wonder, differ from calicoiure,or ture of any other material. Perhaps it is closely allied to "shoddy."—Yours, &c, D. [Our P.D. suggests that the writer probably referred to the canvass tour of the candidate.]
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 573, 28 October 1869, Page 3
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78NOVEL PHILOLOGY. Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 573, 28 October 1869, Page 3
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