Brewer's: Icon Basilike

(4 syl.). Portraiture of King Charles I.

“The, or Portraiture of hys Majesty in hys solitudes and sufferings ... was wholly and only my invention.” —Gauden: Letter to Clarendon.

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