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• Fadda - Fadda Mahomet's white mule. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 ...
• Mule - Mule Mahomet's favourite white mule was Daldah. (See Fadda .) To shoe one's mule. To ...
• Mahomet - Mahomet or Mohammed, according to Deutsch, means the Predicted Messiah. (Hag. ii. 7.) It is the ...
• Horse - Horse The public-house sign. The White Horse. The standard of the Saxons, and therefore impressed ...
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: F - Definitions, origins, and illustrative excerpts for words, phases, and literary allusions starting with "F"