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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lewis Baboon

Louis XIV. of France is so called in Arbuthnot's History of John Bull. Of course, there is a play upon the word Bourbon.

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