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Brentford

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Like the two kings of Brentford smelling at one nosegay. Said of persons who were once rivals, but have become reconciled. The allusion is to an old farce called The Rehearsal, by the Duke of Buckingham. “The two kings of Brentford enter hand in hand,” and the actors, to heighten the absurdity, used to make them enter “smelling at one nosegay” (act ii. s. 2).

 

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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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Breeches
Breeches Bible
Breeze
Breeze
Breidablik [wide-shining]
Brennus
Brent
Brent-goose (A)
Brent-hill
Brentford
Bressommer
Bretwalda (ruler of Britain)
Brevet Rank
Breviary
Brew
Brewer
Briareos or Ægeon
Briar-root Pipe
Briboci
Bric-à-brac

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