a tooth the size of an armchair

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'Shop signs were gargantuan, the better to overwhelm customers. . . . A tooth-puller was represented by a tooth the size of an armchair, a glover by a glove with each finger big enough to hold a baby.'

'Barbara W. Tuchman, from A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, 1978.

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