My main association with the word Circassian is a poem about tiger lilies - "They are Circassian women,/The favorites of the Sultan..." - which for some reason was thought appropriate for children and thus appeared in the Childcraft encyclopedia. It was heady stuff to me at about ten. I had not the least idea what Circassian meant, but it sounded terribly romantic.
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Date: 2019-11-22 08:15 pm (UTC)