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       #Post#: 19678--------------------------------------------------
       The visit of the marquis: women’s period
       By: Aliph Date: December 18, 2019, 6:31 am
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       Currently I am reading an Italian novel and found a funny
       expression that I had forgotten : “il marchese”, literally it
       means the marquis, i.e. a nobleman ranking above a count and
       below a duke.
       Girls in Italy usually have their menarche around the age of
       twelve and they used to call their monthly periods “the visit of
       the marquis” or simply « the marquis ».
       Do you have similar colorful euphemisms in your language to talk
       about menstruations?
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       Re: The visit of the marquis: women’s period
       By: Nikola Date: December 18, 2019, 5:09 pm
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       In Czech, the word for both month and the moon is měsíc.
       Měsíček is a small cute moon. We call it
       měsíčky so it means having small cute moons.
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