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Corking-pins

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Pins at one time used by ladies to keep curls on the forehead fixed and in trim.

 

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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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Corinth’s Pedagogue
Corinthian (A)
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Corinthian Order
Corinthian Tom
Corinthian War (The)
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Corker or Calker
Corking-pins
Cormoran
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Corn in Egypt (There’s)
Corn-Law Rhymer
Cornstalks
Corns
Cornage
Corneille du Boulevard
Corneille dEsope (La)
Corner (A)