(The). So the Oxford Blues, now called the Royal Horse Guards, were called during the campaign in Flanders (1742 1745). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue…
(A). A petrefaction of blue fluor-spar, found in the Blue John mine of Tre Cliff, Derbyshire; and so called to distinguish it from the Black Jack, an ore of zinc. Called John from John…
or Hæmus. A chain of mountains in Thrace. According to mythology, Hæmos, son of Boreas, was changed into a mountain for aspiring to divine honours. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…
(2 syl.). The heroine of Southey's Curse of Keháma. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Kain HensKai-anians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…
Easter, 1916I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words…
(A). A clerical hat. “He [Mr. Helstone] was short of stature [and wore] a rehoboam, or shovel hat, which he did not ... remove.” —“Currer Bell”: Shirley, chap. i. Rehoboam A rehoboam…
The hen in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, and in the tale of Reynard the Fox (fourteenth century). So called from the partlet or loose collar of “the doublet,” referring to the frill-like…
Faire tapisserie. To play gooseberry-picker, to be mere chaperon for the sake of “propriety.” “Se dit des personnes qui assertent á un bal ou á quelque autre grande réunion sansy prendre…
says E. Adams (English Language), properly means a bar—maid; “- ster” is the Anglo-Saxon feminine suffix —estre, which remains in spin-ster (a female spinner). This is only a half-truth.…
The Anglo-Saxon hinc is a servant or page; or perhaps henges-man, a horse-man; henges or hengst, a horse. I do but beg a little changeling boy To be my benchman. Shakespeare: Midsummer…
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