They're all kinds of fun, aren't they? I totally fell in love with Gilly; he's the best Heyer character I've met yet, even better (to my taste) than Sophy and Hugo, fantastic as they are.
The Lexicon Balatronicum (my extracanonical source for period slang) doesn't define 'yard,' only uses it in the definitions of other words, which suggests to me that it would have been seen as a fairly neutral term. But then at the beginning of Friday's Child someone refers to a sword as "his yard of tin," and I just burst out laughing!
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Date: 12/5/09 03:15 am (UTC)The Lexicon Balatronicum (my extracanonical source for period slang) doesn't define 'yard,' only uses it in the definitions of other words, which suggests to me that it would have been seen as a fairly neutral term. But then at the beginning of Friday's Child someone refers to a sword as "his yard of tin," and I just burst out laughing!