Year: 2020 Language: English Author: - Genre: Encyclopedia Format: PDF, DOCx Quality: eBook Pages count: 27 Description: The term itself was controversial. “Clipper” could either be likened to “to clip”, cut, cross quickly, or get close to an marine slang term for the “pinnacle” of its field, a thoroughbred of the seas as it was also associated with race horses. It was influenced by Dryden, the English poet that first used it to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century.
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The Great Clippers (1820-1870)
Language: English
Author: -
Genre: Encyclopedia
Format: PDF, DOCx
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 27
Description: The term itself was controversial. “Clipper” could either be likened to “to clip”, cut, cross quickly, or get close to an marine slang term for the “pinnacle” of its field, a thoroughbred of the seas as it was also associated with race horses. It was influenced by Dryden, the English poet that first used it to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century.
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