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Curtisʹe (2 syl.)

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The little hound in the tale of Reynard the Fox, by Heinrich von Alkman (1498). (High German, lvurz; French, courte, short or small.)

 

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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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