Brewer's: Clelia

A vain, frivolous female butterfly, with a smattering of everything. In youth she coquetted, and, when youth was passed, tried sundry ways of earning a living, but always without success. It is a character in Crabbe's Borough.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Clelie
Cleave
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