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Brewer's: Mincio
or Mintio. The birthplace of Virgil. The Clitumnus, a river of Umbria, was the residence of Propertius; the Anio is where Horace had a villa; the river Meles, in Ionia, is the supposed…Brewer's: Landscape
(A) is a land picture. (Anglo-Saxon landscipe verb scap-an; to shape, to give a form or picture of.) Father of landscape gardening. A. Lenotre (1613-1700). Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Lewis Baboon
Louis XIV. of France is so called in Arbuthnot's History of John Bull. Of course, there is a play upon the word Bourbon. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Lex non Scripta
The common law, as distinguished from the statute or written law. Common law does not derive its force from being recorded, and though its several provisions have been complied and printed…Brewer's: Serjeants-at-Law
French, frèresserjens, a corruption of fratres-scrvientes of the Templars. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sermon LaneSerif A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Tooley Street
A corruption of St. Olaf—i.e. 'T-olaf, Tolay, Tooly. Similarly, Sise Lane is St. Osyth's Lane. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Toom TabardTool A B C D E…Brewer's: Warwick
(Anglo-Saxon, war-wic, contracted from waering-wic (the fortified or garrisoned town). A translation of the ancient British name Caer Leon…Brewer's: Binnacle
The case of the mariner's compass, which used to be written bittacle, a corruption of the Portuguese bitacola, French, habitacle, properly an abode. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Ixion
A king of the Lapithæ, bound to a revolving wheel of fire in the Infernal regions, for his impious presumption in trying to imitate the thunder of heaven. (Greek mythology.) The treadmill…Brewer's: Cock-horse
To ride-a-cock-horse. To sit astride a person's foot or knee while he dances or tosses it up and down. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cock Lane GhostCock-…Trending
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