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Celadine

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a shepherdess in love with Marina. Finding his suit too easily granted, he waxed cold, and discarded the “matchless beauty.” (W. Browne: Britannia’s Pastorals; 1613.)

 

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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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Cean
Ceca to Mecca (From)
Cecilia (St.)
Cecil’s Fast
Ced
Cedar
Cedilla
Ceelict (St.)
Ceinture de la Reine
Celadon
Celadine
Celestial City (The)
Celestial Empire (The)
Celestians
Celia [heavenliness]
Celt
Celts (The)
Cemetery
Cenobites
Cenomanni
Cenotaphs