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Damʹyan (3 syl.)

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A “silke squyer,” whose illicit love was accepted by May, the youthful bride of January, a Lombard knight, sixty years old. (Chaucer: The Marchaundes Tale.)

 

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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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Dambea
Dame du Lac
Damiens Bed of Steel
Damn with Faint Praise
Damoclēs Sword
Damon and Musidora
Damon and Pythias
Damper (A)
Damsel
Damson
Damyan
Dan
Dan Tucker
Danace
Danaë
Danaides
Danaos
Danaw
Dance
Dance (Pyrrhic)
Dance of Death