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An earl called “the Bull,” who tried to make Enid his handmaid; but, when she would neither eat, drink, nor array herself in bravery at his bidding, “he smote her on the cheek;” whereupon her lord and husband, Count Geraint, starting up, slew the “russet-bearded earl” in his own hall. (Tennyson Idylls of the King; Enid.)

 

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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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Doom
Doom Book (dom-boc)
Doom-rings
Doomsday Sedgwick
Doomstead
Door. (Greek, thura; Anglo-Saxon, dora.)
Door Nail
Door-opener (The)
Door-tree (A)
Doors [house]
Doorm
Dora
Dorado (El)
Dorax
Dorcas Society
Dorchester
Doric
Doric Dialect
Doric Land
Doric Reed
Doricourt