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Brewer's: Colliberts
A sort of gipsy race in Poitou, Maine, and Anjou, similar to the Cagots of Gascony and the Caqueux of Brittany. In feudal times a collibert was a serf partly free, but bound to certain…Brewer's: Cotereaux
(French). Cut-throats. The King of England, irritated at the rising in Brittany in the twelfth century, sent the Brabancons (q.v. ) to ravage the lands of Raoul de Fourgères. These cut-…Brewer's: Gingham
So called from Guingamp, a town in Brittany, where it was originally manufactured (Littré). A common playful equivalent of umbrella. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Wile away Time
(not While). It is the same word as “guile,” to “beguile the time” (fallere tempus). “To wile each moment with a fresh delight.”…Brewer's: Dragon Slayers
(1) St. Philip the Apostle is said to have destroyed a huge dragon at Hierapolis, in Phrygia. (2) St. Martha killed the terrible dragon called Tarasque at Aix (la Chapelle). (3) St.…Brewer's: Korrigans
or Corrigan. Nine fays of Brittany, of wonderful powers. They can predict future events, assume any shape they like, move quick as thought from place to place, and cure diseases or wounds…Brewer's: Yves
(St.) (1 syl.). Patron saint of lawyers, being himself a lawyer. As he used his knowledge of the law in defending the oppressed, he is called in Brittany “the poor man's advocate.”…Brewer's: Good
The Good. Alfonso VIII. (or IX.) of Leon, “The Noble and Good.” (1158-1214.) Douglas (The good Sir James), Bruce's friend, died 1330. Jean II. of France, le Bon. (1319, 1350-1364.) Jean…Brewer's: Cromlech
A large stone resting on two or more others, like a table. (Welsh, crom, bent; llech, a flat stone.) Weyland Smith's cave (Berkshire), Trevethy stone (Cornwall), Kit's Coty House (Kent).…Detroit, city, United States
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