azure, cotton, orange, saffron, scarlet, sugar and damask

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'direct products of the Crusades may be found in our language in the words azure, cotton, orange, saffron, scarlet, sugar and damask . . . all of which come to us either from Arabic or, through Arabic, from some Oriental language.'

'Owen Barfield, History in English Words, 1967.

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