"Jellby" <me### [at] privacynet> wrote in message 
news:fdu### [at] badulaqueunexes...
> Among other things, Bill Hails saw fit to write:
>
>> Maybe not a name for that specific shape but a name for objects
>> of that type, like a stone or wood merchant might carry round
>> as samples.
>
> I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't know if there's a more
> appropriate word even in my own language, but "samples" sounds perfectly
> valid to me.
>
> Or maybe you mean "swatch"?
> From dictionary.com: swatch: A sample strip cut from a piece of material

Heh.  I am a native English speaker, and "sample" is just the term I would 
have used, or "swatch" for fabric.  :-)

Cheers,
  Brian

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