Arnac-la-Poste (W3)

Chaque année est organisé un rassemblement "des communes de France aux noms burlesques et chantants" à l'initiative de l'association du même nom. Au programme : convivialité, bonne humeur et découverte du terroir. En juillet 2009, il a eu lieu à Bouzillé, dans le Maine-et-Loire. Etaient présents : Poil, Arnac-la-Poste, Vinsobres...

Arnac-la-Poste

Ce nom peu banal remonte au début du XVIIIe siècle. La commune a abrité un relais de poste sur la route royale Paris-Toulouse. En plus de son nom bizarre, la commune a d'autres atouts : son église fortifiée ou les vestiges de son château fort.

• Département : Haute-Vienne (87)
• Gentilé : Arnacois. Et non les arnaqueurs...
• Nombre d'habitants : 1024
• Densité : 21 hab. au km²
• En savoir plus sur : Arnac-la-Poste

Sur le chemin entre Toulouse et Paris, n'hésitez pas à vous arrêter visiter la commune d'Arnac-La-Poste, dont le nom comique cache une véritable destination touristique. Comme beaucoup de villes de la région, cette petite bourgade se nommait autrefois "Arnac", mais la présence d'un relais de poste au XIIème siècle lui a permis de s'octroyer ce nom. On peut d'ailleurs toujours voir l'ancien relais et découvrir la magnifique église fortifiée ainsi que la vieille tour de Lubignac.
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Tüll (W3)

Anton Cechov: Die Apothekerin / Einmal im Jahr
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Die Fürstin selbst, eine gebeugte und runzelige Greisin, sitzt in einem großen Lehnstuhl und streicht immerfort die Falten ihres weißen Tüllkleides zurecht. Nur die an ihre dürre Brust geheftete Rose erinnert daran, daß es in dieser Welt auch eine Jugend giebt! Die Fürstin erwartet ihre Gratulanten.
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Tulle (W3)

No. 54 From "DENIM" to "GAUZE"

Words from everywhere on our tongues

You've probably worn, or at least seen, some article of clothing made of a cloth called "JERSEY". And you may even have a "CASHMERE" sweater. Have you ever thought about where these names might come from? You may have thought there is some connection to the Channel Island called "Jersey", and noticed that the second sounds rather like the area to the north if India and Pakistan called "Kashmir". Guess what: in both cases you'd be right. In English we have an amazingly colorful variety of names for different kinds of fabrics, from dozens of languages. So we have every reason to conclude that the international trade in cloth has surely been thriving for a very long time.

Many a textile name perpetuates the name of a place where a type of cloth was first imported from. Sometimes, like "JERSEY" the place name is exactly the same, but others like "CASHMERE" preserve it somewhat disguised. Look at a few more:

"ASTRAKHAN" (A fabric with a curly pile using or imitating the soft, wavy wool of young lambs). - From the town of "Astrakhan" in southern Russia near the Caspian Sea.

"CALICO" (A coarse cloth usually printed in bright designs). - First made in "Calicut", an early trade center in India.

"CAMBRIC" (Finely woven white linen or cotton). - From the Flemish town of "Kamerijk", now "Cambrai" in northwestern France.

"CRETONNE" (A heavy cotton or linen, usually printed). - From "Creton", a town in the Normandy region of France.

"DAMASK" (A patterned fabric used for fine table linen). - From "Damascus", an ancient city in Syria.

"DENIM" (A sturdy familiar type of cloth). - From "Nimes" in France (the name preserves "de Nimes" "from Nimes").

By the way, even though "jeans" is not the name of a fabric, it fits in here too because the name is derived from "Genoa" in Italy.

"GAUZE" (A thin fabric with loose weave). - From "Gaza" on the Mediterranean, first imported from there by the French.

"LISLE" (A fabric knitted with a tightly-twisted cotton thread). - The name is an old spelling of the city now called "Lille" in northwestern France.

"MADRAS" (A fine-texture cotton cloth usually printed with a pattern). - Here we see the name of "Madras" in southern India preserved unchanged.

"MUSLIN" (A plain-weave cotton fabric mostly used for sheets). - The name had a circuitous route: Italian traders named it after the town of "Mosul" (in present-day Iraq) where they found it, the French took over the name and modified it, and we got it from them.

"ORGANDY" (A crisp fabric of cotton or silk). - The town named "Urgench" (in present-day Uzbekistan in Central Asia) was on the old silk route, an early market for Chinese silks.

"POPLIN" (A ribbed fabric used for clothing and upholstery). - From southern France, but the history of the word is a little more indirect than the others: its original Italian name was "papalino", in which we see the word "papa" "pope", because the cloth was first manufactured in the 14th-century papal town of Avignon.

"SHANTUNG" (A heavy wild-silk fabric with a rough surface). - From "Shantung" in China.

Curiously, dictionaries will give various explanations of the basic word "SILK" itself, showing that we're not sure where this word comes from.

"TULLE" (A fine starched net of silk). - Preserves the name of "Tulle" in central France.

"WORSTED" (Fabric made from a compactly twisted woolen yarn). - Here we see the name of present-day "Worstead" in England.

And then there are the names of kinds of cloth that, while they don't contain a place name, do preserve something about the look, feel or method of manufacture in a seemingly endless variety of languages (no derivations here, you can easily look them up if you're interested -

"brocade", "burlap", "canvas", "chenille", "chiffon", "chintz", "corduroy", "cotton", "crepe", "crinoline", "flannel", "gabardine", "gingham", "khaki", "linen", "mohair", "percale", "satin", "seersucker", "serge", "taffeta", "tweed", "twill", "velour", "velvet".

Thousands of years is a very long time for any trade to be carried on. We have solid evidence that the weaving of cloth (the new invention replacing the previous use of animal skins for clothing) was developed back in the "Neolithic" Age, probably as long as 10,000 years ago. There is also abundant evidence that the trade in this valuable new commodity began almost immediately, and the closer we get to modern times the more we see that it has been continuing uninterrupted ever since, with steadily increasing variety.

This is why you may well wonder whether we have ANY cloth names other than "wool" that are native English. Not many. As long as human culture has existed, humans have been passing around artifacts to each other and the names have usually gone with them. Cloth is a striking example, but it is only one of a great many areas of cultural contact throughout history.

Where trade leads the way, languages follow. There is no such thing as a completely isolated language. The idea of a 'pure' language 'strong' enough to resist taking words from other languages is nothing but a tenacious myth. All languages are constantly borrowing words from each other while they are borrowing objects and ideas. This process will always be an invariable, enriching aspect of any language's life.

We found 31 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word tulle:

• tulle: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
• tulle: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
• tulle: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
• Tulle: Wiktionary [home, info]
• tulle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
• tulle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
• tulle: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
• tulle: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
• tulle: Dictionary.com [home, info]
• tulle: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
• tulle: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
• Tulle (disambiguation), Tulle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
• Tulle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
• tulle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
• tulle: Rhymezone [home, info]
• Tulle: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
• Tulle (Silk): 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
• tulle: Free Dictionary [home, info]
• tulle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
• tulle: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
• tulle: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
• tulle: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
• tulle: The online dictionary of antiques and decorative arts [home, info]
• tulle: Encyclopedia [home, info]
• Tulle: Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info]
• Tulle: Fabric Glossary [home, info]
• Tulle: Fabric and Fashion Glossary [home, info]
• Tulle: Textile [home, info]

Tulle
Stadt / Gemeinde in Corrèze (19), Limousin, Frankreich, Europa
Lateinischer Name: Tutela
Bauwerke
Name Jahr Zustand

• 6 rue des Portes-Chanac
• Cité Administrative, Tour de la in Nutzung
• Corne, maison
• Escurol, pont de l' in Nutzung
• Justizpalast in Nutzung
• Loyac, Maison de
• Musée de Tulle - André Mazeyrie in Nutzung
• Nacre, Passerelle de im Bau
• Notre-Dame, Kathedrale in Nutzung
• Préfecture du Département de la Corrèze in Nutzung
• Rathaus (Tulle) in Nutzung
• Stadttheater Tulle 1902 in Nutzung
• Tulle-Viadukt

tullerie (W3)

tulliste (W3)

Tutela (W3)

• "Moderata tutela" = "eine mäßige Schutzwehr, wenn man bey der Gegenwehr alle Vorsicht gebraucht, damit sie dem Gegner so wenig als möglich nachtheilig werde".
• "Tutela", ...
• "tutelar" = "vormundschaftlich"
• "Tutelaris" = "der Schützende", eine Benennung des Jupiter, seine Altäre wurden in umzäunten Oertern errichtet. - Dann führt auch Jupiters Sohn Genius von der Cybele diesen Namen, gleichsam als Hüter des menschlichen Geistes.

tutelage (W3)

tutélaire (W3)

tutelary (W3)

Vinsobres (W3)

Voilà un nom bien étrange pour une commune qui produit le premier Cru des Côtes-du-Rhône en Drôme provencale ! Les vignerons de Vinsobres cultivent la vigne et élaborent un vin, défini depuis des siècles par la maxime de Monseigneur de Suarès (1633) : "Vinsobres ou sobre vin, prenez-le sobrement".

La commune est située à 9 km au sud-ouest de Nyons et à 15 km au nord de Vaison-la-Romaine.

• Département : Drôme (26)
• Gentilé : Vinsobrais
• Nombre d'habitants : 1 072
• Densité : 31 hab. / km²
• En savoir plus sur : Vinsobres

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Die Herkunft des Ortsnamens ist nicht eindeutig zu klären. Die alte gallische Bezeichnung Vintiobriga könnte sich jedoch aus den Teilen vins für Wind und briga für Berg, Festung zusammensetzen. Vinsobres würde somit ungefähr „windige Bergfestung“ bedeuten.
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Michelin - Le Guide Vert - Berry, Limousin

Sprache: Französisch
Broschiert
Erscheinungsdatum: April 2006
Auflage: 1
ISBN: 2067117467