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Salʹace (3 syl.)

.

The sea, or rather the salt or briny deep; the wife of Neptune.

Triton, who boasts his high Neptunian race,

Sprung from the god by Salace’s embrace.”


Camoens: Lusiad, book vi.

 

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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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Saints
Saivas
Saker
Sakhrat [Sak-rah]
Sakta
Sa-kuntala
Sakya-Muni
Sal Prunella
Salacacabia or Salacacaby of Apicius
Salace
Salad Days
Salamander
Salamander’s Wool
Salary
Salchichon
Sale by the Candle
Salem
Salic Law
Saliens (The)
Salient Angles