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A misericord was designed for the elderly or infirm, allowing them to rest when they couldn’t stand for long during prayer or other divine offices. It was basically the medieval ancestor of priority seating.

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Warriorcatv2

That's... A very interesting wood carving. Took me a second to register it. Glanced of my brain at first. Nice art (: informative too.

Lou Papas

Shame I can’t post pictures here but looking this up on Google Images gave me a goatze carved in wood and you get to suffer with me (consensually)

D Smith

She's not wrong 😅

Iroquois Pliskin

She's definitely right, being hungry is unwell. Hopefully she's able to resolve this issue.

Henry Walker

Most interesting, then you add an "e" to the end of it, i.e. misericorde and you end up with "a long and narrow knife used during the High Middle Ages to deliver mercy killings to mortally wounded knights." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericorde_(weapon) You just have to love those small nuances of language and how a single letter can change the word.