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Callaʹbre or Calaber

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A Calaʹbrian fur. Ducange says, “At Chichester the ‘priest vicarsʹ and at St. Paul’s the ‘minor canonsʹ wore a calabre amyce;” and Bale, in his Image of Both Churches, alludes to the “fair rochets of Raines (Rennes), and costly grey amicës of calaber and catsʹ tails.”

       

“The Lord Mayor and those aldermen above the chair ought to have their coats furred with grey amis, and also with changeable taffeta; and those below the chair with calabre and with green taffeta.”—Hutton: New View of 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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Call of Abraham
Call of God
Call of the House
Call to Arms (To)
Call to the Bar
Call to the Pastorate
Call to the Unconverted
Call (To)
Called
Callabre or Calaber
Caller Herrings
Calligraphy (The art of)
Callimachos
Calling
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Callipolis
Callippic Period
Callirrhoe
Calomel
Caloyers