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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Ostrich Brains

It was Heliogabalus who had battues of ostriches for the sake of their brains. Smollett says “he had six hundred ostriches compounded in one mess.” (Peregrine Pickle.)

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