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Au Pied de la Lettre (French)

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Literatim et verbatim; according to the strict letter of the text.

In reading au pied de la lettre the story of his [Buddha’s] fatal illness supervened on a meal of ‘dried boar’s flesh,ʹ served to him by a certain Kunda.”—Nineteenth Century (June, 1893, p. 1020).

 

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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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Attic Science
Attics, Attic Storey
Atticus
Attingians
Attock
Attorney, Solicitor (French, atourner, to attorn, or turn over to another)
Atys
Au Courant (French)
Au Fait (French)
Au Grand Sérieux (French)
Au Pied de la Lettre (French)
Au Revoir (French)
Aubry’s Dog
Audeanism
Audhumla [the nourishing power]
Audley
Audrey
Augean Stables
Augsburg Confession
Augury
August