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Words I assumed I had not been misspelling until greeted somewhere by the fact of my wrongness, by she
Room At The Inn, by bilby
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A reflection at once so prudent and so virtuous acted as a refrigerator on my spirits; but visions of pleasure and of interest soon raised them again above the freezing point.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 10
Interesting usage from before the days of mechanical refrigerators. I would imagine this was a fairly rare word back then.