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White Water-lotus [Pe-lien-kaou]

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A secret society which greatly disturbed the empire of China in the reign of Kea-King. (1796–1820.)

 

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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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White Moon (Knight of the)
White Night (A)
White Poplar
White Rose
White Sheep [Ak-koin-loo]
White Squall
White Stone
White Stone (Rev. ii. 17)
White Surrey
White Tincture
White Water-lotus [Pe-lien-kaou]
White Widow
White Witch (A)
White as Driven Snow
White in the Eye
Whitebait Dinner
Whiteboys
Whitehall (London)
Whitewashed
Whit-leather
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