Brewer's: Alako

Al′ako

Son of Baro-Devel, the great god of the gipsies. The gipsies say that he will ultimately restore them to Assas in Assyria, their native country. The image of Alako has a pen in his left hand and a sword in his right.

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