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Culʹverkeys

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The keys or flowers of the culver or columba, i.e. columbine. (Anglo-Saxon culfre, a dove.)

 

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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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Cuirass
Cuishes
Cul de Sac (French)
Culdees
Cullis
Cully
Culminate
Culross Girdles
Culver
Culverin
Culverkeys
Cum Grano Salis
Cum Hoc, Propter Hoc
Cumberland Poet (The)
Cummer
Cunctator [the delayer]
Cuneiform Letters
Cunning Man or Woman
Cuno
Cunobelin’s Gold Mines
Cunstance