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for “multitude” is not an Americanism, but good Old English. Thus, in Morte dʹArthur, the word is not unfrequently so employed; and the high-born dame, Juliana Berners, lady prioress in the fifteenth century of Sopwell nunnery, speaks of a bomynable syght of monkes (a large number of friars).

“Where is so huge a syght of mony.”—Pulsgrave: Acolastus (1540).

 

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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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