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Beʹvis

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The horse of Lord Marmion. (Sir Walter Scott.) (See Horse.)

Bevis of Southampton. A knight of romance, whose exploits are recounted in Drayton’s Polyolbion. The French call him Beuves de Hantone.

 

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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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Bettina
Betty
Betty
Betubium
Between
Betwixt and Between
Beurre
Beuves
Bever
Bevil
Bevis
Bevoriskius
Bevy
Bezaliel
Bezonian
Bheem or Bhîma
Biæum
Bianca
Bianchi
Bias
Biberius Caldius Mero