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| | Previous Columns/Posted 7/01/97 |
 | | Blackguards, flguards, everywhere, and yet no one calls them that anymore, which is a shame. |
 | | "Blackguard" is, as the Oxford folks put it, "a term of the utmost opprobrium" dating back to the 15th century. |
 | | Of the possible origins mentioned, I tend to believe that it may originally have referred to an elite unit of soldiers or palace guards dressed in fl, or, alternatively, to someone whose character was completely and utterly "fl" in the sense of corruption or evil. |
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