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Ferdoʹsi

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A Persian poet, famous for the copious flow of his diction. He wrote in verse the Shah-Nâmch, or history of the Persian kings, which took thirty years, and contains 120,000 verses.

 

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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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Fencible Regiments
Fenella
Fenians
Fennel
Fenrir or Fenris
Fenton
Feræ Naturæ
Feramorz
Ferdinand
Ferdinando
Ferdosi
Ferguson
Fern
Fern Seed
Fernando Florestan
Ferney
Ferohers
Ferracute [sharp iron]
Ferragus
Ferrara
Ferrau (in Orlando Furioso)