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QUARREL

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 712 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUARREL . (1) (Through Fr. querelle from See also:

Lat. querela, complaint), originally a complaint against a See also:person, particularly a legal See also:accusation or See also:charge, hence a ground or cause for complaint or anger, or, more generally, an outbreak of anger or violent dispute. (2)H(Through O. Fr. quarrel or quarel, from med. Lat. quadrellus, diminutive of quadrus, square), a heavy See also:short See also:bolt or arrow with a square See also:head, used in a See also:cross-See also:bow or arbalest. In See also:architecture this See also:term (and also the doublet " See also:quarry ") is applied to any square-shaped opening, in the See also:Beauchamp See also:Roll to the quatrefoils in Perpendicular windows, sometimes to squares of paving, but most commonly to fhe See also:lozenge-shaped pieces of See also:glass in See also:lead casements (see GLASS, STAINED).

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