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Cahors

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Usuriers de Cahors. In the thirteenth century there was a colony of Jewish money-lenders settled at Cahors, which was to France what Lombard Street was to London.

 

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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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Cæsar
Cæsarian Operation
Cæsarism
Cæteris paribus (Latin)
Caf (Mount)
Caftan
Cag Mag
Cage
Cagliostro
Cagots
Cahors
Caiaphas
Cain-coloured Beard
Cainites
Cairds
Caius (Dr.)
Cake
Cake
Cake…Dough
Cakes
Calabash

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Cahors