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Quotation dates: 1638
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Quernal, adj.[L. quernus, e.m.E. quernall (1599).] Made of oak leaves. 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 52.
Hay … and his two Mars-like sons, Do for all ages wear the quernal crowns