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Cleʹlia

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A vain, frivolous female butterfly, with a smattering of everything. In youth she coquetted; and, when youth was passed, tried sundry ways of earning a living, but always without success. It is a character in Crabbe’s Borough.

 

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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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Clear (the adjective)
Clear as Crystal. Clear as Mud
Clear-coat
Clear Day (A)
Clear Grit (The)
Clear out for Guam (To)
Clear Voice (A)
Cleared out
Clearing House
Cleave
Clelia
Clelie
Clement (St.)
Clementina (The Lady)
Clench and Clinch
Cleombrotos
Cleon
Cleopatra
Cleopatra and her Pearl
Clergy
Clergymen

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Clelia