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Recognized by the Bloomsbury set, Spencer's early work--heavily influenced by Gauguin's neoprimitive paintings of Christs and angels in Breton costumes--was included in one of the critic Roger Fry's influential group exhibitions, which introduced British audiences to Cézanne and Picasso.
Almost certainly a loanword, in Old English it is catt ; Welsh and Cornish cath ; Gaelic cat ; Old Irish cat ; Dutch and Danish kat ; Middle Dutch katte ; Swedish katt, katta ; Old Norse kött-r ; Old High German chazza, chataro ; Middle High German katero, kater ; Modern German Katze , but Modern German and Dutch also have kater tomcat ( tom denoting the male of certain species of animal, notably the cat); French chat ; Spanish and Portuguese gato ; Italian gatto ; Old North French cat ; West German katta ; Breton kaz ; Old Slavonic kotŭka, kotka ; Slavonic kot ; Bulgarian kotka ; Russian, male kot , female kotchka, koshka ; Bohemian, male kot , female kotka ; Lithuaniane kate ; Finnish katti ; Polish kot , male cat or tomcat koczur, kocur .
It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.
The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).
Attracted by the natural harbor, one of the world’s largest, the British established the town in the mid-18th century as a naval garrison and shipyard to counter the French fortress of Louisbourg farther north on Cape Breton (see page 130).
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