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Brewer's: Dorax
A Portuguese renegade, in Dryden's Don Sebastian—by far the best of all his characters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dorcas SocietyDorado A B C D E F…Brewer's: Guy-ropes
Guide, or guiding-ropes, to steady heavy goods while a-hoisting. (Spanish and Portuguese guia, from guiar, to guide.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…1400–1499 <span class="small" >(A.D.)</span> World History
The Duomo inFlorenceLinda J. BarnesJoan of Arc (1412–1431)1407Casa di San Giorgio, one of the first public banks, founded in Genoa.1415Henry V defeats French at Agincourt. Jan Hus, Bohemian…Brewer's: Cid
Arabic for lord. Don Roderigo Laynez, Ruy Diaz (son of Diaz), Count of Bivar'. He was called “mio cid el campëador,” my lord the champion (1025-1099). Corruption of Saïd. The Cid's horse…Brewer's: Coward
(anciently written culvard) is either from the French, couard, originally written culvert, from culver (a pigeon), pigeon-livered being still a common expression for a coward; or else from…Brewer's: Talpot
or Talipot Tree. A gigantic palm. When the sheath of the flower bursts it makes a report like that of a cannon. They burst, like Zeilan's giant palm, Whose buds fly open with a sound That…Brewer's: Racy
Having distinctive piquancy, as racy wine. It was first applied to wine, and, according to Cowley, comes to us from the Spanish and Portuguese raiz (root), meaning having a radical or…Brewer's: Romanic
or Romance Languages. Those modern languages which are the immediate offspring of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Early French is emphatically so called; hence…Brewer's: Pigeon-English
or Pigeon-talk. A corruption of business-talk. Thus: business, bidginess, bidgin, pidgin, pigeon. A mixture of English, Portuguese, and Chinese, used in business transactions in “The…Brewer's: Zacocia
King of Mozambec. Camoens, in his Lusiad, says that he received Vasco da Gama and his men with great hospitality, believing them to be Mahometans, but the moment he discovered that they…Trending
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