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Brewer's: Maronites
(3 syl.). A Christian tribe of Syria in the eighth century; so called from the monastery of Maron, on the slopes of Lebanon, their chief seat; so called from John Maron, Patriarch of Antioch, in the sixth century.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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