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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 09 September 18 05:21 BST (UK) »
Good job!  That's definitely a new word for me.  I'll have to try to work it into a conversation.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 09 September 18 08:17 BST (UK) »
Seems that folk were struggling with the term nearly 120 years ago, an article in the Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser of May 1899 included the following observation: 

... Of a morning I have seen as many as a half-dozen persons washing their faces and arms with dew on a fine May morn, but I don't remember that it removed the freckles, or, as they were more commonly called, "summer-voys," a word I cannot understand or find in any dictionary ...



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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 09 September 18 09:11 BST (UK) »
Oh well done, so glad to know what it means. 
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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 09 September 18 09:40 BST (UK) »
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01moe/

Look under "Freckles"

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The link may be of assistance for other obscure terms/words.


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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 09 September 18 09:59 BST (UK) »
Thank you so so much .... I had the correct word then with summervoise but the spelling is a variant. I also tried searching freckles but did not get the same marvellous selection that you have. Brilliant start to my day   ...  :)

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Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 09 September 18 21:43 BST (UK) »
Flushed with success!  ;D

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