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Faerie Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...The An allegorical romance of chivalry by Edmund Spenser , originally intended to have been in 12 books, each of which was to have portrayed one of the 12 moral virtues, but only six books were completed. The first three were published in 1590 , and the second three in 1596 . It details the adventures of various knights, who personify different virtues, so that Sir artegal is the Knight of Justice, and Sir calidore the Knight of Courtesy. The knights belong to the court of gloriana , who sometimes typifies Queen Elizabeth I...
Lady Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...‘bread kneader’, from Old English hlœfdīge ( hlāf , ‘bread’, and dīge , ‘kneader’, related to modern ‘dough’). The original meaning was simply the female head of the family, the mistress of the household, or what is now called ‘the lady of the house’. See also courtesy titles ; cousin ; lord . Ladies’ Gallery, The A public gallery in the house of commons that is reserved for women. Ladies’ Mile, The A stretch of the road on the north side of the Serpentine, Hyde Park, much favoured in Victorian days by ‘equestriennes’. The Coaching and...
King Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...slightly less large. King’s or Queen’s messenger An official of the British Foreign Office whose duty it is to carry personally confidential messages from London to any embassy or legation abroad. He carries as his badge of office a silver greyhound, and although he receives courtesies and help in the countries across which he travels, he enjoys no diplomatic immunities or privileges except that of passing through the customs the ‘diplomatic bag’ he is carrying. King’s Oak, The The oak under which Henry VIII sat in Epping Forest, while Anne Boleyn was...
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A New Dictionary of Eponyms
..., masochist The word masochism comes to us courtesy of Chevalier Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ( 1836–1895 ), Austrian novelist. Sacher-Masoch did not invent masochism, but it was a recurring theme in his novels and he can certainly be credited with bringing the concept into the open. He wrote The Legacy of Cain , which he had begun in 1870 and finished in 1877 , and False Ermine , published in 1873 . His heroines were large, domineering, Brunnhilde-type women dressed in furs and wielding nailstudded whips on their “slaves,” timid men. His...
