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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Strawberry Preachers

So Latimer called the non-resident country clergy, because they strayed from their parishes, to which they returned only once a year. (Anglo-Saxon, streowan, to stray.)

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