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How a furry tale became a fairy tale.(The Home Forum)
From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20010228
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A slipper lost in translation
The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins calls Cinderella's glass slipper "the most horrendous mistranslation in literary history." Linguist Joseph Shipley calls it "the fate of a forgotten word." They are not alone.
Most scholars, including the great 19th-century French novelist Honore de Balzac, affirm that the original phrase describing the fated shoe was pantoufle en vair, a little slipper of fur. The vair came from miniver, a spotted white fur used for trimming royal garments.
However, vair had fallen into disuse at ...
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