Lisboʹa or Lisʹboa

“What beauties doth Lisboʹa first unfold.”

“And thou, famed Lisʹboa, whose embattled wall

Rose by the hand that wrought proud Ilion’s fall.”

Mickle: Lusiad.

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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.