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Andʹrea Ferraʹra

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A sword. So called from a famous sword-maker of the name. (Sixteenth century.)

“Weʹll put in bail, my boy; old Andrea Ferrara shall lodge his security.”—Scott: Waverley, ch. 50.

 

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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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