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Brewer's: Ballet
(pronounce bal-lay). A theatrical representation of some adventure or intrigue by pantomime and dancing. Baltazarini, director of music to Catherine de' Medici, was the inventor of modern…Brewer's: Hangman's Acre, Gains, and Gain's Alley
(London), in the liberty of St. Catherine. Strype says it is a corruption of “Hammes and Guynes,” so called because refugees from those places were allowed to lodge there in the reign of…Brewer's: Flower Sermon
A sermon preached on Whit Monday in St. Catherine Cree, when all the congregation wear flowers. Flower sermons are now (1894) preached very generally once a year, especially in country…Brewer's: Messalina
Wife of the Emperor Claudius of Rome. Her name has become a byword for lasciviousness and incontinency. Catherine II. of Russia is called The Modern Messalina (1729-1796). (See Marozia…Brewer's: Michal
in the satire of Absalom and Achitophel, by Dryden and Tate, is meant for Queen Catherine, wife of Charles II. As Charles II. is called David in the satire, and Michal was David's wife,…Brewer's: Semiramis of the North
Margaret of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. (1353-1412.) Catherine II. of Russia (1729-1796). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SenanusSeltzer Water A B C D…1998 British Academy of Film and Television Awards
The 1998 BAFTA Awards, the British equivalent of our Oscar and Emmy awards (combined into one ceremony), were presented April 19, 1998 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. These are the…Brewer's: Maid of Perth
(Fair). Catherine Glover, daughter of Simon Glover, the old glover of Perth. She kisses Smith while asleep on St. Valentine's morning, and ultimately marries him. (See Smith.) (Scott: Fair…Brewer's: Margherit'a di Valois
married Henri the Béarnais, afterwards Henri IV. of France. During the wedding soleminites, Catherine de Medicis devised the massacre of the French Protestants, and Margherita was at a…Brewer's: Gruel
To give him his gruel. To kill him. The allusion is to the very common practice in France, in the sixteenth century, of giving poisoned possets—an art brought to perfection by Catherine de…Trending
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