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Chriss-cross Row (row to rhyme with low)

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The alphabet in a hornbook, which had a cross at the beginning and end.

Philosophy is all the go,

And science quite the fashion;

Our grandams learnt the Chriss-cross Row,

L—d, how their daughters dash on.”


Anon. in the Eaglet.

 

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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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Chop Logic (To)
Chops
Chops of the Channel
Chopine
Choreutæ [Korutee]
Choriambic Metre
Chouans
Choughs Protected
Chouse
Chriem-hilda or Chriem-hild
Chriss-cross Row (row to rhyme with low)
Chrisom or Chrism
Christabel [Kristabel]
Christabelle [Kristabel]
Christendom [Kris-en-dum]
Christian [ch = k]
Christian Traditions
Christiana [ch = k]
Christmas (Kristmas)
Christmas
Christmas Box