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Defeat

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“What though the field be lost? all is not lost.” (Milton: Paradise Lost, i. line 105–6.)

All is lost but honour” (Tout est perdu, madame, fors lʹhonneur) is what Francois I. is said to have written to his mother, after the Battle of Pavia in 1525.

 

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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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Dedalian
Dedlock (Sir Leicester)
Dee
Dee (Dr. John)
Dee Mills
Deer
Deerslayer
Dees (The)
Deev-Binder
Default
Defeat
Defeat
Defender of the Faith
Deficit (Madame)
Degenerate
Dei Gratia
Dei Judicium (Latin)
Deianira
Deiphobus
Deities
Déjeuner à la Fourchette (French)