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Dian’s Worshippers

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Midnight revellers. So called because they return home by moonlight. Dian means the moon.

 

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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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Diadem
Dialectics
Diamond
Diamond (Newton’s favourite little dog)
Diamond Hammer (A)
Diamond Jousts (The)
Diamond Necklace (The) (1785)
Diamond Sculls (The)
Diana
Diana of Ephesus
Dian’s Worshippers
Dianora
Diapason
Diaper
Diavolo (Fra)
Dibs or Dibbs
Dicers Oaths
Dicilla (in Orlando Furioso)
Dick
Dick’s Hatband
Dick = Richard