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Leonʹidas of Modern Greece

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Marco Bozzaris, who with 1,200 men put to rout 4,000 Turco-Albanians, at Kerpenisi, but was killed in the attack (1823). He was buried at Missolonghi.

 

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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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Length (A)
Length-month
Lens (Latin, a lentil or bean)
Lenson
Lent (Anglo-Saxon, lencten)
Lent Lily (The)
Lenten
Leodogrance
Leon (in Orlando Furioso)
Leonard
Leonidas of Modern Greece
Leonine Contract
Leonine Verses
Leonnoys, Leonnesse, or Lyonnesse
Leonora
Leontes
Leopard
Leopards
Lepracaun
Lerna
Les Anguilles de Melun