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Grove

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The “grove” for which the Jewish women wove hangings, and which the Jews were commanded to cut down and burn, was the wooden Ashʹera, a sort of idol symbolising the generative power of Nature.

 

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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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Gross
Grosted or Robert Grosseteste
Grotesque
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Grotto
Grotto of Ephesus (The)
Ground
Ground Arms (To)
Groundlings
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Grub Street
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Grunth
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