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Leʹda and the Swan

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This has been a favourite subject with artists. In the Orléans gallery is the chef-dʹ-œuvre of Paul Veronese. Correggio and Michael Angelo have both left paintings of the same subject.

 

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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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Least Said the soonest Mended (The) or The Less Said
Leather
Leather or Prunella
Leathering
Leatherstocking (Natty)
Leave in the Lurch (To)
Leave out in the Cold (To)
Leave some for Manners
Leaves without Figs
Led Captain (A)
Leda and the Swan
Ledger (A)
Ledger-lines
Lee
Lee Hatch
Lee Shore
Lee-side
Lee Tide, or Leeward Tide
Leeds (a Stock Exchange term)
Leek
Lees