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Ariosʹto

was privately married to Alessandra Benucci, widow of Tito Strozzi; she is generally called his mistress.

Ariosto of the North. So Lord Byron calls Sir Walter Scott. (Childe Harold, iv. 40.)

 

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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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Argyle
Arians
Arideus [A-ree-de-us]
Ariel
Aries
Arimanes
Arimaspians
Arioch
Arion
Ariosto
Aristeas
Aristides
Aristippos
Aristocracy
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Aristotelian Philosophy
Aristotelian Unities
Ark
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