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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 125 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAGGOT , a bundle of sticks used for firewood. The word is adapted from the Fr. fagot, and appears in See also:

Italian as fagotto, the name given to the See also:bassoon (q.v.). " Faggot " is frequently used with reference to the burning of heretics, and recanted heretics wore an embroidered faggot on the See also:arm as a See also:symbol of the See also:punishment they had escaped. In the 18th See also:century the word is used of a " dummy " soldier, appearing on the rolls of a See also:regiment. It is this use, coupled with the See also:idea of a bundle of sticks as being capable of subdivision, that appears in the expression " faggot-See also:vote," a vote artificially created by the See also:minute splitting up of See also:property so as to give a See also:bare qualification for the See also:franchise.

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