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Finch Lane (London)

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So called from a family of consideration by the name of Finch or Finke. There was once a church in the lane called St. Benet Finke. There is an Irish saint named Finc, in Latin Fincana, whose day is October 13th.

 

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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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Filia Dolorosa
Filibuster
Filioque Controversy (The)
Fill-dyke
Fillet
Filomena
Filter
Fin
Finality John
Finance (French)
Finch Lane (London)
Find
Findon Haddocks
Findy
Fine Arts
Fine as Fivepence
Fine-ear
Finetor
Fingal
Fingal’s Cave
Finger. (Anglo-Saxon, finger)