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Belʹford

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A friend of Lovelace in Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe. These “friends” made a covenant to pardon every sort of liberty which they took with each other.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bejan
Bel-à-faire-peur
Bel Esprit (French)
Belch
Belcher
Beldam
Beleses
Belfast Regiment (The)
Bel-fires
Belford
Belfry
Belial (Hebrew)
Belinda
Belinuncia
Belisarius
Bell
Bell
Bells
Bell, Book, and Candle
Bell of Patrick’s Will (clog an eadhachta Phatraic)