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No work was done on the Cathedral of Saint Gorboduc until the thirteenth century when this abbot built the first wooden Gothic church [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 34].
Originally a Portuguese word meaning place of trade, sort of like bazaar; also the name given to the main buildings at the Paris Expositions of 1878 and 1937. Bowen speculates that these expositions were the reasons why trocadero has been such a popular name for restaurants and night clubs. "I suppose that this in turn is why John picked the word: it has a Spanish-looking ending appropriate for the name of a Spanish monastery, but its associations are utterly nonmonastic."
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