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Bowling Green State University
(Encyclopedia) Bowling Green State University, at Bowling Green, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1910 as a normal school, opened 1914. It became a college in 1929, a university in 1935. The school has…apatite
(Encyclopedia) apatiteapatiteăpˈətīt [key], mineral, a phosphate of calcium containing chlorine or fluorine, or both, that is transparent to opaque in shades of green, brown, yellow, white, red, and…Walker, Kara Elizabeth
(Encyclopedia) Walker, Kara Elizabeth,1969–, American artist, b. Stockton, Calif., grad. Atlanta College of Art (B.F.A., 1981), Rhode Island School of Design (M.F.A., 1994). Walker is best known for…Brewer's: Kendal Green
Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii…Brewer's: Jolly Green
Very simple; easily imposed upon, from being without worldly wisdom. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jolly RogerJolly Good Fellow A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Lincoln Green
Lincoln, at one time, was noted for its green, Coventry for its blue, and Yorkshire for its grey. (See Kendal Green.) “And girls in Lincoln green.” Drayton: Polyolbion, xxv. Falstaff…Brewer's: Green as Grass
Applied to those easily gulled, and quite unacquainted with the ways of the world. “Verdant Greens.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green Bag InquiryGreen…Brewer's: Green Bag
What's in the green bag? What charge is about to be preferred against me? The allusion is to the “Green Bag Inquiry” (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Bird
(The) told everything a person wished to know, and talked like an oracle. (CountessD'Aulnoy: Fair Star and Prince Chery.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Cloth
The Board of Green Cloth. A board connected with the royal household, having power to correct offenders within the verge of the palace and two hundred yards beyond the gates. A warrant…Trending
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