Brewer's: Elliot

In the Black Dwarf, by Sir Walter Scott, are seven of that name, viz. Halbert or Hobbie Elliot, of the Heugh-foot (a farmer); Mrs. Elliot, his grandmother; John and Harry, his brothers; and Lilias, Jean, and Arnot, his sisters.

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