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Dulcinʹea

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A lady-love. Taken from Don Quixote’s amie du cœur. Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but the knight dubbed her Dulcinʹea del Toboʹso.

“I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head—it harmonises the soul.”—Sterne.

 

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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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Duke of Exeter’s Daughter (The)
Duke or Darling
Duke’s
Duke’s Walk
Dukeries
Dulcarnon
Dulce Domum
Dulce est Desipere in Loco
Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori (Latin)
Dulcimer (Italian dolcimello)
Dulcinea
Dulcinists
Dulia
Dull as a Fro
Dull as Ditch-water
Dulness
Dum Sola (Latin)
Dum Spiro, Spero
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus (Latin)
Dumachus
Dumb-barge (A)