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Lefevre

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The poor lieutenant whose story is so touchingly told in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy book vi. chap. 6).

 

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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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Lee
Lee Hatch
Lee Shore
Lee-side
Lee Tide, or Leeward Tide
Leeds (a Stock Exchange term)
Leek
Lees
Leet (A)
Leeward
Lefevre
Left
Left-handed Compliment (A)
Left-handed Marriage
Left-handed Oath (A)
Left in the Lurch
Leg (A)
Leg-bail
Leg-bye (A)
Leg of Mutton School (The)
Legs