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Dalkey (King of)

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A kind of “Mayor of Garrat” (q.v.) at Kingstown, in Ireland. A full description is given of this mock mayor, etc., in a book entitled Ireland Ninety Years Ago.

 

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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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Dais
Daisies
Daisy
Daisy (Solomon)
Daisy-cutter (A)
Daisy-roots
Dalai-Lama [grand lama]
Daldah
Dalgarno (Lord)
Dalgetty (Dugald)
Dalkey (King of)
Dalle (French)
Dalmatica
Dam
Damage
Damask Linen
Damaskeening
Dambea
Dame du Lac
Damiens Bed of Steel
Damn with Faint Praise