greek pitch

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

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noun

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"He observed, he says, “that the pine and cypress of which it was built had lasted most remarkably. On the outside it was built with double planks, daubed over with Greek pitch, caulked with linen rags, and over all a sheet of lead, fastened on with little copper nails.”"

Calque of Latin pix Graeca.

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