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Louis (St.)

is usually represented as holding the Saviour’s crown of throns and the cross; sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim’s staff, and sometimes with the standard of the cross, the allusion in all cases being to his crusades.

 

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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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Loss
Lost Island
Lothair
Lothario
Lothian (Scotland)
Lotus
Lotus-eaters or Lotophagi
Loud Patterns
Loud as Tom of Lincoln
Louis (St.)
Louis Dix-huit
Louisiana
Loup
Louvre [Paris]
Louvre of St. Petersburg (The)
Love (God of)
Love-lock
Love-powders or Potions
Love and Lordship
Love in a Cottage

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