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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Court of Love

A judicial court for deciding affairs of the heart, established in Provence during the palmy days of the Troubadours. The following is a case submitted to their judgment: A lady listened to one admirer, squeezed the hand of another, and touched with her toe the foot of a third. Query, Which of these three was the favoured suitor?

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