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Gertrude (St.)

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in Christian art, is sometimes represented as surrounded with rats and mice; and sometimes as spinning, the rats and mice running about her distaff.

 

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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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Geraldine
Geranium (g soft)
Gerda (g hard)
German or Germaine (g soft)
German
German Comb
German Silver
Gerrymander (g hard)
Gerst-Monat
Gertrude
Gertrude (St.)
Gertrude of Wyoming
Gervais (St.)
Geryon (g hard)
Geryoneo
Gesmas (g hard)
Gessler (g hard)
Gesta Romanorum (g soft)
Geste or Gest (g soft)
Get (To)
Get, Got