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Brewer's: Moor-slayer
or Mata-moros. A name given to St. James, the patronsaint of Spain, because in almost all encounters with the Moors he came on his white horse to the aid of the Christians. So, at least, it is said.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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