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Colʹliberts

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A sort of gipsy race in Poitou, Maine, and Anjou, similar to the Cagots of Gascony and the Caqueux of Brittany. In feudal times a collibert was a serf partly free, but bound to certain services. (Latin, col-libertus, a fellow freedman.)

 

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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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Collar
Collar (verb)
Collar-day (A)
Collar of Arsinoë
Collar of SS
Collectivists
College (New)
College Colours
College Colours
College Port
Colliberts
Colluthians
Colly my Cow
Collyridians
Collywobbles
Cologne
Colon
Colophon
Coloquintida or Colocynth
Coloquintida (St.)
Colorado (U.S. America)

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