The mark (,) under a French sibilant c. This mark is the letter z, and the word is from the Italian zediglia (“zeticula,” a little z. (Greek, zēta; Spanish, ceda, with a diminutive.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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