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Hamet

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The Cid Hamet Benengeʹli. The hypothetical Moorish chronicler from whom Cervantës professes to derive his adventures of Don Quixote.

“Of the two bad cassocks I am worth … I would have given the latter of them as freely as even Cid Hamet offered his … to have stood by.”—Sterne.

 

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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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Halloo when out of the Wood
Halloween (October 31st)
Halter
Halter, or rather Halster
Haltios
Ham and Heyd
Hamadryads
Hameh
Hamet
Hamilton
Hamiltonian System
Hamlet
Hammel (Scotch)
Hammer
Hammer
Hammer of the Scotch
Hammercloth
Hampton Court Conference
Hamshackle

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