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Daron, Daronne (French)

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The sobriquet given, at the present day, by workmen to shopkeepers and cobblers.

“Il étoit maître de tout, jusquʹà manier lʹargent de la daronne.”—Histoire de Guillaume, cocher.

 

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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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