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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Luath

(2 syl.). Cuthullin's dog in Ossian's Fingal; also the name of the poor man's dog representing the peasantry in The Twa Dogs, by Robert Burns. The gentleman's dog is called Caesar. Also Fingal's dog. (See Dog.)

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