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Forʹdelis (in Orlando Furioso)

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Wife of Branʹdimart, Orlando’s intimate friend. When Brandimart was slain, she dwelt for a time in his mausoleum in Sicily, and died broken-hearted. (Book xii.)

 

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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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