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Venice of the West

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Glasgow.

“Another element in the blazon of the ‘Venice of the Westʹ is a fish laid across the stem of the tree, ‘in base,ʹ as the heralds say.”—J. H. Burton.

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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.