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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Kex

hemlock. Tennyson says in The Princess, “Though the rough kex break the starred mosaic,” though weeds break the pavement. Nothing breaks a pavement like the growth of grass or lichen through it. (Welsh, cecys, hemlock; French, ciguë; Latin, cicuta.)

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