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A l’outrance

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To the uttermost. (Anglo-French for à outrance.)

“A champion has started up to maintain à lʹoutrance her innocence of the great offence.”—Standard.

 

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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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Alms-house
Alms-man
Alnaschar Dream (An)
Alnaschar of Modern Literature
Aloe
Along-shore Men
Alonzo of Aguilar
Aloof
Alorus
A l’outrance
Alp
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Alphabet
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Alpheus (in Orlando Furioso)
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Alphonso
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A ontrance. (French.)