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Brewer's: Love in a Cottage
A marriage for love without sufficient means to maintain one's social status. However, “When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Queen Anne's Style
(of architecture). Noted for many angles, gables, quaint features, and irregularity of windows. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen ConsortQueen Anne's…Brewer's: Poverty ... Love
“When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.” “Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PowderPouting Place…Brewer's: Vesica Piscis
(Latin, fish-bladder). The ovoidal frame or glory which, in the twelfth century, was much used, especially in painted windows, to surround pictures of the Virgin Mary and of our Lord. It…Brewer's: Sub Hasta
By auction. When an auction took place among the Romans, it was customary to stick a spear in the ground to give notice of it to the public. In London we hang from the first-floor window a…Brewer's: Exquisite
(3 syl.). One sought out; a coxcomb, a dandy, one who thinks himself superlatively well dressed, and of most unexceptionable deportment. “Exquisites are out of place in the pulpit; they…Brewer's: Fan-light
(A), placed over a door, is a semicircular window with radiating bars, like the ribs of an open fan. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FanaticFan A B C D E…Brewer's: Glazier
Is your father a glazier? Does he make windows, for you stand in my light and expect me to see through you? Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894GleekGlaymore A…Brewer's: Flag of Distress
A card at one's window announcing “lodgings” or “board and lodgings.” The allusion is evident. A flag reversed, hoisted with the union downwards. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Top Selling Mac Software, 2010
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