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Cathedræ Molles (Latin)

Luxurious women. Properly, soft chairs. The cathedra was a chair for women, like our ottoman; and Juvenal applies the soft chair used by women of dainty habits to the women who use them

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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.