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779. [2/2] Poetry Reading: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (by Simon Armitage)

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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Ermine Cloak

An ermine is expensive white fur that comes from small animals called stoats. So the lining of this, this cloak, iser, it's lined with this smooth, short fur and faced with an all white ermine. Yet the sort of thing that's a members of the royal family would have worn it for traditional purposes. You see a picture of king henry the eighth wearing an ermine cloak. And then we'e got a picture of prince charles himself in an ermine coat. That's a cloak, folks.

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