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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

White Water-lotus

[Pe-lien-kaou]. A secret society which greatly disturbed the empire of China in the reign of Kea King. (1796-1820.)

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