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- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition, 2005
- ↑ Hogg, Thomas Jefferson. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley.G Routledge & Sons, 1906
- ↑ Buchan, William (1838). Domestic Medicine: A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicines. p. 587.
- ↑ Trésor de la langue française, s.v. 'panade'
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