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Louisiana

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U.S. America. So named in compliment to Louis XIV. of France. Originally applied to the French possessions in the Mississippi Valley.

 

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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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Lost Island
Lothair
Lothario
Lothian (Scotland)
Lotus
Lotus-eaters or Lotophagi
Loud Patterns
Loud as Tom of Lincoln
Louis (St.)
Louis Dix-huit
Louisiana
Loup
Louvre [Paris]
Louvre of St. Petersburg (The)
Love (God of)
Love-lock
Love-powders or Potions
Love and Lordship
Love in a Cottage
Love-in-Idleness
Love me, Love my Dog

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