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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLOT , a See also:

term originally meaning a space of ground used for a specific purpose, especially as a See also:building site, formerly in frequent usage in the sense of a See also:plan, a surveyed space of ground; hence the See also:literary sense of a plan or See also:design. The word is of doubtful origin; there is a See also:collateral See also:form " plat," which appears in the 16th See also:century, according to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary, under the See also:influence of " plat, " See also:flat See also:place, See also:surface (Fr. plat, See also:Late See also:Lat. plattus, probably from Gr. iXar6r, broad). See also:Skeat (Etym. See also:Diet.) refers " plot," in the sense of a space of ground, to the O. Eng. plaec, See also:Mid. Eng. Aleck, later platch, patch.

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