Qur English word "Mustard” is trace. Able to the French word “ Moutarde,” ol which the origin is .rather curious. In X3SS Pliilit) the Bold. Duke of Burgundy, ur nted to the town of Diion the privilege of. bearing his armorial designs, with the motto. "Mfinlt me tarde " (I wish ardently!. in return for a contingent of a thousand men furnished to him at his expense. Pleased at the Royal condescension, the authorities ordered the device to be affixed over the nrincinal gate of the city. Time or accident obliterated the middle, word, and the two remaining, '' moult tarde " were printed on the labels which the merchants of Diion pasted on nets in which they sent this commodity to all parts of the world.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 1
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