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Cocqcigrues

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At the coming of the Cocqucigrues. That good time coming, when every mystery shall be cleared up.

“‘That is one of the seven things,ʹ said the fairy Bedonebyasyoudid, ‘I am forbidden to tell till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.ʹ”—C. Kingsley: The Water Babies, chap. vi.

 

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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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