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Swanʹimote

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A court held thrice a year before forest verderers by the steward of the court. So called because the swans or swains were the jurymen. (Swans, swains, or sweins, freeholders; Anglo-Saxon, swan or swein, a herdsman, shepherd, youth; our swain.)

⁂ This court was incident to a forest, as the court of pie-powder or piepoudre to a fair.

 

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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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Swan
Swan
Swan-hopping
Swan of Avon (The), or Sweet Swan of Avon
Swan of Cambray (The)
Swan of Mantua (The), or The Mantuan Swan
Swan of Meander (The)
Swan of Padua (The)
Swans … Geese
Swanimote
Swarga
Swashbuckler
Swear
Swear Black is White (To)
Swear by my Sword (Hamlet, i. 5)
Sweat
Sweating Sickness
Swedenborgians
Swedish Nightingale
Sweep

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