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Foxglove

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called by the Welsh Fairy’s glove and by the Irish Fairy-bells, is either a corruption of Folk’s glovei.e. the glove of the good folks or fairies, or else of the Saxon fox[es]glofa, red or fox-coloured glove. (French, gants de Notre Dame.)

 

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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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