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Caricatures

mean “sketches over-drawn.” (Italian, caricatuʹra, from caricaʹrë, to load or burden.

 

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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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Cardinal Virtues
Cardinal Winds
Cardinals
Cardinal’s Red Hat
Carduel
Care-cloth (The)
Care killed the Cat
Care Sunday (the fifth Sunday in Lent)
Carême
Car-goose (A) or Gargoose
Caricatures
Carillons
Carinæ
Carle or Carling Sunday [Pea Sunday]
Carlovingian Dynasty
Carludovica
Carmagnole
Carmelites
Carmilhan
Carminative
Carmine