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Regime de la Calotte

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Administration of government by ecclesiastics. The calotte is the small skull-cap worn over the tonsure.

 

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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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