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Dufarge

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Jacques and Madame Dufarge are the presiding genii of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and chief instigators of many of the crimes committed by the Red Republicans in Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities.

 

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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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Dude
Dudeism
Dudgeon (The)
Dudman and Ramhead
Duds
Dudu
Duende
Duenna [Lady]
Duergar
Duessa (Double-mind or False-faith)
Dufarge
Duffer (A)
Duglas
Duke
Duke Coombe
Duke Ernest
Duke Humphrey
Duke Street (Strand)
Duke and Duchess
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter (The)
Duke or Darling