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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Icon Basilike

(4 syl.). Portraiture of King Charles I.

“The, or Portraiture of hys Majesty in hys solitudes and sufferings ... was wholly and only my invention.” —Gauden: Letter to Clarendon.

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