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Brewer's: Red Cross
(The). The badge of the royal banner of England till those of St. Patrick and St. Andrew were added. “The fall of Rouen (1419) was the fall of the whole province ... and the red cross of…Brewer's: Red Rose
(The). One of several badges of the House of Lancaster, but not necessarily the most prominent. It was used by Edmund, Earl of Lancaster (1245-96), called Crouchback, second son of Henry…Brewer's: Rolls
[Chancery Lane, London]. So called from the records kept there in rolls of parchment. The house was originally built by Henry III, for converted Jews, and was called “Domus Conversorum.”…Brewer's: Priest of the Blue-bag
A barrister. A blue-bag is a cant name for a barrister. (See Barrister's Bag.) “He [O'Flynn] had twice pleaded his own cause, without help of attorney, and showed himself as practised in…Brewer's: White Moon
(Knight of the). Sampson Carrasco assumed this character and device, in order to induce Don Quixote to abandon knight errantry, and return home. The…Brewer's: Arcite
(2 syl.). A young Theban knight, made captive by Duke Theseus, and shut up with Palamon in a prison at Athens. Here both the captives fell in love with Emily, the duke's sister-in-law.…Brewer's: Blazon
[Blazonry]. To blazon is to announce with a trumpet, hence the Ghost in Hamlet says, “But this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood,” i.e. this babbling about eternal…Brewer's: Modred
in the romance of The Round Table, is represented as the treacherous knight. He revolted from his Uncle Arthur, whose wife he seduced, was mortally wounded in the battle of Camlan, in…Brewer's: Palamon and Arcite
(2 syl.). Two young Theban knights who fell into the hands of “Duke Theseus,” and were shut up in a donjon at Athens. Both fell in love with Emily, the duke's sister-in-law. In time they…Brewer's: Gabrina
in Orlando Furioso, is a sort of Potiphar's wife. (See under Argeo.) When Philander had unwittingly killed her husband,Gabrina threatened to deliver him up to the law unless he married her…Trending
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