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<DIV>Your PS is true about JR, malheureusement. </DIV>
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<DIV>This “corde à noeuds”, could it be what we call a turk’s head knot?:</DIV>
<DIV><A title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk%27s_head_knot
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk%27s_head_knot">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk%27s_head_knot</A></DIV>
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<DIV>One tends to have one of these on the front of a canal boat to protect the
prow when you bump into lock gates, etc. I can’t seem to find what I’m
searching for close up, but it looks a bit like a solid version of this:</DIV>
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<DIV><IMG alt="Image result for "turk's head knot" on a canal boat"
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<DIV>Various images of boats, some with turk’s heads:</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no>Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 21, 2020 9:08 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com>Stuart N. Clarke</A> ;
<A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf, Conrad, and bosse</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Je m'excuse. Mais comme je l'ai écrit au professeur Haberer, il semble que
Conrad ait peut-être mal compris l'idiome francais. "L'expression roulé ma bosse
aurait vraisemblablement pour origine le monde marin. Une bosse est une corde à
noeuds utilisée par les marins qui étaient réputés pour vagabonder, voyager et
voir du pays. Par extension, l'expression s'utilise pour désigner quelqu'un qui
a une grande expérience dans un domaine."</P>
<P>Avec mes sincères remerciements à M. Google.</P>
<P>Jeremy H</P>
<P>P.S. but if "bosse" in the idiom is a nautical expression meaning a cord with
lots of knots, this cannot help at all with Woolf's text, alas.<BR></P>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 21.04.2020 21:54, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<DIV>Vous avez écrasé mon email prochain.</DIV>
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