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Ebʹony

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God’s image done in ebony. Negroes. Thomas Fuller gave birth to this expression.

 

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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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Eat One’s Heart Out (To)
Eats his Head Off (The horse)
Eating One’s Terms
Eating Together
Eau de Cologne
Eau de Vie
Eaves-dropper
Ebionism
Ebionites
Eblis or Ibleis
Ebony
Ebudæ
Ecce Homo
Ecce Signum
Eccentric
Eccentric Sensation
Eccentric Theory (The)
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiasticus
Echidna (E-kid-na)

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Ebony