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Think about It (Iʹll)

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A courteous refusal. When the sovereign declines to accept a bill, the words employed are Le roi (or la reine) sʹavisera.

 

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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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