A Venetian boat.
“Venice, in her purple prime … . when the famous law was passed making all gondolas black, that the nobles should not squander fortunes upon them.”—Curtis: Potiphar Papers, i. p. 31.
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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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