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Cruel (now Crewel) Garters

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Garters made of worsted or yarn.

Ha! ha! look, he wears cruel garters.”



“Wearing of silk, why art thou so cruel?”


Woman’s a Weathercock (1612).

 

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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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Crown of the East
Crowns
Crowner
Crow’s-Nest (The)
Crowquill (Alfred)
Croysado
Crozier or Crosier
Crucial
Crude Forms
Cruel (The)
Cruel (now Crewel) Garters
Crummy
Crump
Crusades
Crush
Crush-room (The)
Crusoe (A)
Crust
Crusted Port
Crusty
Crutched Friars