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<DIV>My French isn’t good enough to understand fully their uses of the term, but
Larousse online merely suggests that a “fagot” is a bundle of sticks for
kindling, while the metaphorical use of the verb is to dress without taste:
“regarde comme elle fagote ses enfants”. I wonder if it is ever applied to
men.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cf. “Orlando” (Hogarth, 1928), p. 40: “Was that figure of fun at the end of
the table with her hair rigged up like a Maypole (comme une grande perche mal
fagotée) really the Queen?”</DIV>
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<DIV>The translation was supplied by Vita (at Virginia’s request) in her letter
of 26 April 1928.</DIV>
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<DIV>(I would be prepared to go to the stake that VW would not have comprehended
faggot as meaning “A (male) homosexual. <EM>slang</EM> (orig. and chiefly <EM
title="United States">U.S.</EM>).” On the other hand, she would be much
more likely to have known (or at least heard of) the plural use as “a sort of
cake, roll, or ball,..made of chopped liver and lights, mixed with gravy, and
wrapped in pieces of pig's caul.” I wonder how many people in N. America
have heard of “faggots” used thus.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=SPARKS@clemson.edu
href="mailto:SPARKS@clemson.edu">Elisa Sparks</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:51 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] FW: Etymology of Term Used in A Room of One's
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everyone else already knows this, but I thought this post from an assiduous
undergraduate might add a small nugget to our pile of knowledge about
Room.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Dr. Sparks,<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I remembered you wondered if Woolf might have known about the
slang version of the term "faggot" when writing about the professor in <I>A Room
of One's Own.</I> I checked the <I>OED</I>, and the etymology is intriguing. The
term was used since the 16th century as "a term of abuse or contempt applied to
a woman," and 1914 is the earliest recording of the term being used as slang for
homosexual. Also, examples for "faggot" as a pejorative term used toward a woman
include James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. I think that Woolf was aware of both of
the meanings and applied them to create a double insult.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I hope you find this as interesting as I
did.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Justin Holliday<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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