Brewer's: Rosana

Daughter of the Queen of Armenia. She aided the three sons of St. George to quench the seven lamps of the Knight of the Black Castle. (The Seven Champions of Christendom, ii. 8-9.) (See Lamps.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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