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Key of a Cipher

or of a romance. That which explains the secret or lays it open (“La clef dʹun chiffre” or “La clef dʹun romance”).

 

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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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Kettle (A)
Kettle of Fish
Kettledrum
Kettledrummle (Gabriel.)
Kevin (St.)
Kex
Key
Key-cold
Key-stone
Key and the Bible (A)
Key of a Cipher
Key of the Mediterranean
Key of Russia
Key of Spain
Keys
Keys
Keys (The House of)
Keyne (St.)
Khedive dEgypte
Khorassan [Region of the Sun]
Ki