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[http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t31 '''''A New Dictionary of Eponyms''''']

[https://0-www.oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t31 '''''A New Dictionary of Eponyms''''']

This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of [[eponyms]], such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks.

This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of [[eponyms]], such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks.