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Belladonna (Italian, beautiful lady)

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This name was given to the Deadly Nightshade, from a practice once common among ladies of touching their eyes with it to make the pupils large and lustrous.

 

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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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Belinuncia
Belisarius
Bell
Bell
Bells
Bell, Book, and Candle
Bell of Patrick’s Will (clog an eadhachta Phatraic)
Bell Savage
Bell-the-Cat
Bell-wavering
Belladonna (Italian, beautiful lady)
Bellarmine (A)
Bellaston (Lady)
Belle
Belles Lettres
Bellefontaine (Benedict)
Bellerophon
Bellerophon
Bellerus
Bellicent
Bellin