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Brewer's: Jaquemart
The automaton of a clock, consisting of a man and woman who strike the hours on a bell. So called from Jean Jaquemart of Dijon, a clock maker, who devised this piece of mechanism.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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