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Brewer's: Queen Consort
Wife of a reigning king. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen DickQueen Anne's Style A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…Brewer's: Queen Dick
Richard Cromwell is sometimes so called. (See Dick, Greek Calends.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen DowagerQueen Consort A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Queen Dowager
The widow of a deceased king. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen PassionQueen Dick A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…Brewer's: Queen of Heaven
with the ancient Phoenicians, was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin…Brewer's: Queen of the May
A village lass chosen to preside over the parish sports on May Day. Tennyson has a poem on the subject. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen of the…Brewer's: Queen of the North
Edinburgh. (See the proper name for other queens.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen of the Northern SeasQueen of the May A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Queen Passion
(The Great). Love. The gallant Jew Of mortal hearts the great queen passion knew. PeterPimdar: Portfolio; Dinah. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen…Brewer's: Queen Quintessence
Sovereign of Etéléchie (q.v.), in the romance of Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Rabelais. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen RegnantQueen Passion A B C…Brewer's: Queen Regnant
A queen who holds the crown in her own right, in contradistinction to a Queen Consort, who is queen only because her husband is king. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Queen's Bench
or King's Bench. One of the courts of law, in which the monarch used to preside in person. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Queen's CollegeQueen of the…Trending
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