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pre-Conquest

[ pree-kon-kwest, -kong- ]

  1. of or relating to the time before the Norman conquest of England in 1066.


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Latin are Architriclin 96 (pre-Conquest), probably clerekes 17, the French original has clers, possibly religiun 92.

This little book makes no claim to be a history of pre-Conquest Literature.

Here is an old castle and a ruined palace, a round tower, a roofless cathedral, and an old pre-Conquest church.

This pre-Conquest language has to be learned as we learn a foreign tongue.

Only three more aisled churches of unquestionably pre-Conquest date exist above ground.

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