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Brewer's: Chatterpie
Same as chatterbox. The pie means the magpie. (Mag, to chatter.) (See Halliwell.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Chaucer of PaintingChatterhouse A B C D…Brewer's: Troilus and Cressida
(Shakespeare). The story was originally written by Lollius, an old Lombard author, and since by Chaucer (Pope). Chaucer's poem is from Boccaccio's Filostrato. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Gower
called by Chaucer “The moral Gower.” O moral Gower, this book I direct To thee, and to the philosophical Strood, To vouchsauf there need is to correct Of your benignities and zealës good.…Brewer's: Peveril of the Peak
Sir Geoffrey the Cavalier, and Lady Margaret his wife; Julian Peveril, their son, in love with Alice Bridgenorth, daughter of Major Bridgenorth, a Boundhead, and William Peveril, natural…Brewer's: Giants' Dance
(The). Stonehenge, which Geoffrey of Monmouth says was removed from Killaraus, a mountain in Ireland, by the magical skill of Merlin. “If you [Aurelius] are desirous to honour the burying-…Brewer's: Evans
(Sir Hugh). A pedantic Welsh parson and schoolmaster of wondrous simplicity and shrewdness. (Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor.) Evans (William). The giant porter of Charles I., who…Brewer's: Canterbury Tales
Chaucer supposed that he was in company with a party of pilgrims going to Canterbury to pay their devotions at the shrine of Thomas à Becket. The party assembled at an inn in Southwark,…Brewer's: Chauvin
A blind idolator of Napoleon the Great. The name is taken from Les Aides de Camp, by Bayard and Dumanoir, but was popularised in Charet's Conscrit Chauvin. Chauvinism. A blind idolatry of…Brewer's: Dan
A title of honour, common with the old poets, as Dan Phoebus, Dan Cupid, Dan Neptune, Dan Chaucer, etc. (Spanish, don.) Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's eternal beadroll…Brewer's: Tiburce
(3 syl.) or Tiburce (2 syl.). Brother of Valirian, converted by the teaching of St. Cecilia, his sister-in-law, and baptised by Pope Urban. Being brought before Almachius the prefect, and…Trending
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