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Old 14th May 2020, 07:03 PM   #1
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Thank you!

Google translate can't handle fourbisseur. But I found a definition in a French dictionary: Person whose task is to furnish, mount or repair bladed weapons to make them brighter.

Also, if you do a Google Image search for "Habit de Fourbisseur" there are a lot of entertaining images from other pages of the same book.

I think they might be costumes for pageant entertainers or the invention of the artist to entertain the nobility with the day-to-day of their subjects?
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Old 14th May 2020, 10:00 PM   #2
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Nice Halloween costume!
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Old 15th May 2020, 07:50 AM   #3
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It's hell for him at airports, though...
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It's hell for him at airports, though...
Luckily, they didn't have TSA back then...
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Old 15th May 2020, 01:31 PM   #5
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It's hell for him at airports, though...
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Old 15th May 2020, 02:58 PM   #6
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He probably is saying to himself

"I just don't get the point"

sorry i couldn't resist this joke
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Old 15th May 2020, 05:20 PM   #7
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He just lives in a really bad neighbourhood.
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Old 16th May 2020, 09:18 AM   #8
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I alway's wondered were the expression " armed to the teeth" came from ….
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