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Quasimoʹdo

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A foundling, hideously deformed, but of amazing strength, in Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris.

 

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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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Quarter-days in England and Ireland:
Quarter Waggoner
Quarters
Quarterdeck
Quartermaster
Quartered
Quarto
Quarto-Decimans
Quashee
Quasi (Latin)
Quasimodo
Quasimodo Sunday
Quassia
Quatorziennes (fourteeners)
Queen
Queen (The White)
Queen Anne is Dead
Queen Anne’s Bounty
Queen Anne’s Style (of architecture)
Queen Consort
Queen Dick