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Field of the Cloth of Gold

The plain, near Guisnes, where Henry VIII. had his interview with François I. in 1520; so called from the splendour and magnificence displayed there on the occasion.

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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.

Field of the Cloth of Gold

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