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Brewer's: Albadara
A bone which the Arabs say defies destruction, and which; at the resurrection, will be the germ of the new body. The Jews called it Luz (q.v.); and the “Os sacrum” (q.v.) refers probably to the same superstition.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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