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Gondola

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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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Golosh
Gomarists
Gombeen Man (The)
Gombo
Gondola
Gone Coon (A)
Gone to the Devil
Gone Up
Goneril
Gonfalon
Gonfanon
Gonin
Gonnella’s Horse
Gonsalez [Gon-zalley]
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