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Maritorʹnes (Spanish, bad woman)

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A vulgar, ugly, stunted servant-wench, whom Don Quixote mistakes for a lord’s daughter, and her “hair, rough as a horse’s tail,” his diseased imagination fancies to be “silken threads of finest gold.” (Cervantes: Don Quixote.)

 

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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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Mariamites
Mariana
Marigold
Marina
Marinda or Maridah
Marine
Marines
Mariner’s Compass
Marino Faliero
Mariotte’s Law
Maritornes (Spanish, bad woman)
Marivaudage
Marjoram
Mark
Mark (St.)
Mark (Sir)
Mark Banco
Mark Tapley
Mark Time!
Mark of the Beast (The)
Mark’s Eve (St.)