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caput mortuum / details

11/12/2019

 


ORIGIN 
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early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘minor items or events regarded collectively’):
​from French détail (noun), détailler (verb), from dé- (expressing separation) + tailler ‘to cut’ (based on Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’).

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