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08-10-2001, 05:17 PM

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To remove or conceal any modern items in an encampment. This is an order called out about 1/2 hour before camps open to the public.

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07-26-2005, 12:08 PM

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Another meaning to the word

De-Far*ing also is the term when someone takes off the modern repro markings on ones musket or rifle and puts on stampings to make it just like an original copy.

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