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Joʹachim (St.)

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The father of the Virgin Mary. Generally represented as an old man carrying in a basket two turtle-doves, in allusion to the offering made for the purification of his daughter. His wife was St. Anne, or St. Anna.

 

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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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Jib Topsail (A)
Jiffy
Jig
Jilt (To)
Jim Crow
Jingo
Jingoes (The)
Jingoism
Jinn
Jinnistan
Joachim (St.)
Joan (Pope)
Joan Cromwell
Joan of Arc or Jeanne la Pucelle
Joannes Hagustaldensis
Job (o long)
Job’s Comforter
Job’s Pound
Job (o short)
Job (o short)
Job Lot (A)