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Somerset
Anciently Sumorsoete or Sumorsoet - i.e.
Suth-mor-soet (south moor camp).
Somerset
or Somersault. A leap in which a person turns head over
heels in the air and lights on his feet. (Latin, super saltus; French, soubresaut.) Sometimes a person will turn twice or
thrice in the air before he touches the ground.
First that could make love faces, or could do
The valter's sombersalts.
Donne: Poems, p. 300.
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