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Long Peter

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Peter Aartsen, the Flemish painter; so called on account of his extraordinary height. (1507–1573.)

 

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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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