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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

furnace XIII. — OF. fornais m., fem. (mod. fournaise) :- L. fornāx, -āc-, and popL. *fornātia, f. L. fornus, furnus oven, rel. to formus WARM.

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