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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Milesian Story

or Tale (A). One very wanton and lubricious. So called from the Milesiæ Fabulæ, the immoral tendency of which was notorious. (See above.)

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