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Lagʹado

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Capital of Balnibarbi, celebrated for its grand academy of projectors, where the scholars spend their time in such useful projects as making pincushions from softened rocks, extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, and converting ice into gunpowder. (Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, Voyage to Lapuʹta.)

 

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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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Lady of the Rock (Our)
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Ladies Plate (The)
Ladies Smocks
Ladies and Gentlemen
Læding
Lælaps
Laertes
Lætare Sunday
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Lager Beer
Laird (Scotch)
Lagoon
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Laissez Faire, Laissez Passer
Lake School (The)
Lakedion or Laquedem (Isaac)
Lakin
Laksmi or Lakshmi
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