Both the words _bronze_ and _copper_ come from the names of places. _Bronze_ is from _Brundusium_, the ancient name of the South Italian town which we now call Brindisi. The Latin name for this metal was _aes Brundusinum_, or "brass of Brindisi." _Copper_ was in Latin _aes Cyprium_, or "brass of Cyprus."
Some coins take their names from the names of places. The _florin_, or two-shilling piece, takes its name from Florence. _Dollar_ is the same word as the German _thaler_, the name of a silver coin which was formerly called a _Joachimstaler_, from the silver-mine of Joachimstal, or "Joachim's Dale," in Bohemia. The _ducat_, a gold coin which was used in nearly all the countries of Europe in the Middle Ages, and which was worth about nine shillings, got its name from the duchy (in Italian, _ducato_) of Apulia, where it was first coined in the twelfth century.
It was an Italian town, Milan, which gave us our word _milliner_. This came from the fact that many fancy materials and ornaments used in millinery were imported from Milan.
Many old dances take their names from places. We hear a great deal nowadays of the "morris dances" which used to be danced in England in olden times. But _morris_ comes from _morys_, an old word for "Moorish." In the Middle Ages this word was used, like "Turk" or "Tartar," to describe almost any Eastern people, and the name came, perhaps, from the fact that in these dances people dressed up, and so looked strange and foreign. The name of a very well-known dance, the _polka_, really means "Polish woman." _Mazurka_, the name of another dance, means "woman of Masovia." The old-fashioned slow dance known as the _polonaise_ took its name from Poland, and was really a Polish dance. The well-known Italian dance called the _tarantella_ took its name from the South Italian town Tarento.
The word _canter_, which describes another kind of movement, comes from Canterbury. _Canter_ is only the short for "Canterbury gallop," an expression which was used to describe the slow jogging pace at which many pilgrims in the Middle Ages rode along the Canterbury road to pray at the famous shrine of St. Thomas Becket in that city.
Several fruits take their names from places. The _damson_, which used in the Middle Ages to be called the "damascene," was called in Latin _prunum damascenum_, or "plum of Damascus." The name _peach_ comes to us from the Late Latin word _pessica_, which was a bad way of saying "Persica." _Currants_ used to be known as "raisins of Corauntz," or Corinth raisins.