Brewer's: Catharine

To braid St. Catharine's tresses. To live a virgin.

“Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catharine's tresses” Longfellow Evangeline.

Catharine
(Knights of St), 1714. A Russian military order founded by Peter the Great after his naval victory of Aland, and so named in compliment to his wife Catharine.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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