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Red Rose Knight (The)

Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1597, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed the Boast of England… .”

 

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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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Red Kettle (A)
Red-laced Jacket
Red Land (The)
Red-lattice Phrases
Red Laws (The)
Red-letter Day
Red Man
Red Men
Red Rag (The)
Red Republicans
Red Rose Knight (The)
Red Rot (The)
Red Sea
Red-shanks
Red Snow
Red Tape
Red Tape
Red Tapism
Red Tincture
Redan
Redder (The)