(Encyclopedia) Wilde, Oscar (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first…
(2 syl.). Wife of King Mark, of Cornwall, who had an illicit affection for Sir Tristram, Mark's nephew. Isolde the White, Sir Tristram's wife. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
(Cornwall). A corruption of “Lazars' Point,” i.e. the place of retirement for lazars or lepers. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lloyd'sLizard Islands A B…
Bellerium is the Land's End, Cornwall, the fabled land of the giant Bellerus. “Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old.” Milton: Lycidas, 160. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
(The). The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. They cut to pieces General Wayne's brigade in the American War, and the Americans vowed to give them no quarter. So they mounted red feathers…
or Tintagil. A strong castle on the coast of Cornwall, the reputed birth-place of King Arthur. “When Uthur in Tintagil passed away.” Tennyson: The Coming of Arthur Source: Dictionary…
To roar like Tregeagle—very loudly. Tregeagle is the giant of Dosmary Pool, on Bodmin Downs (Cornwall), whose allotted task is to bale out the water with a limpet-shell. When the wintry…
St. Clear, Cornwall. A cromlech. Trevédi, in British, means a place of graves. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tria Juncta in UnoTreves A B C D E F G…
Pendragon (chief) of the Britons; by an adulterous amour with Igerna (wife of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall) he became the father of Arthur, who succeeded him as king of the Silures. Source…
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