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Fingal’s Cave

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The basaltic cavern of Staffa. So called from Fion na Gael (Fingal), the great Gaelic hero, whose achievements have been made familiar by the Fingal of Macpherson.

 

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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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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)
Finger and Glove
Finger in the Pie
Finger Benediction
Finger-stall
Fingers
Fingers before Forks
Fingers Ends
Fingered
Fingle-fangle (A)

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Fingal's Cave