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Calyp so

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in Fénelon’s Télémaque, is meant to represent Madame de Montespan. In fairy mythology, she was queen of the island Ogygʹia on which Ulysses was wrecked, and where he was detained for seven years.

 

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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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Calvary [bare skull], Golgotha [skull]
Calvary Clover
Calvary Cross (A)
Calvert’s Entire
Calves
Calves gone to Grass (His)
Calves Head
Calves Head Club
Calvinism
Calydon
Calyp so
Calypso’s Isle
Cam and Isis
Cama
Camacho
Camal dolites
Camaralzaman (Prince)
Camarilla (Spanish)
Camarina
Cambalo’s Ring
Cambel

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Calypso