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Dame du Lac

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A fay, named Vivienne, who plunged with the infant Lancelot into a lake. This lake was a kind of mirage, concealing the demesnes of the ladyen la marche de la petite Bretaigne.” (See Vivienne.)

“En ce lieu … . avoit la dame moult de belles maisons et moult riches; et au plain dessoubs elle avoit une gente petite rivière.”

 

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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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Dalgetty (Dugald)
Dalkey (King of)
Dalle (French)
Dalmatica
Dam
Damage
Damask Linen
Damaskeening
Dambea
Dame du Lac
Damiens Bed of Steel
Damn with Faint Praise
Damoclēs Sword
Damon and Musidora
Damon and Pythias
Damper (A)
Damsel
Damson
Damyan
Dan