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Don

is do-on, as “Don your bonnet.” (See Doff, Dup.)        

“Then up he rose, and donned his clothes,

And duppʹd the chamber door.”

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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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Domestic Poultry
Domiciliary Visit (A)
Dominic (St.)
Dominical Letters
Dominicans
Dominie Sampson
Dominions
Domino (A)
Dominoes
Domisellus
Don
Don
Don Giovanni
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Donation of Pepin (The)
Donatists
Doncaster
Dondasch
Done Brown
Done For

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