ACT II

Boutique : A shop. Corrupted from Lat. apoiheca. For the analysis of this word see Brachet's Etym. Dict., translated by Kitchin, § 172, Introduction.

... Portes vitrées : Glass doors. Vitre, from Lat. vitrum, which has also given verre, glass. Notice. — The need of greater ease in pronunciation shows itself in French by the gênerai weakening of the Latin letters. In this case the letters in contact being dissimilar, the French language assimilâtes them ; it changes tr into rr : vitrum, verre. It does the same with dr, adripare, arriver : qitadratum, carré.^ Une viire, or un carreau de vitre, 2. pane of glass ; casser les mires, to break the Windows. Livres de caisse : Cash-books. Caisse, froni Lat. capsa. Notice. — Ps becomes ss by assimilation, ^^^above. ^ r r^ij -n Echantillons: Patterns. Dimmutive of Uld I^r. écha7îtil (originally eschantil, escantil), composed of ex and Old Fr- cant (a corner, a pièce), which cornes from Lat. canthus.

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