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Loyal

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Only one regiment of all the British army is so called, and that is the “Loyal North Lancashire,” in two battalions, No. 47 and No. 81. It was so called in 1793, and probably had some allusion to the French revolutionists.

 

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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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Low Mass
Low Sunday
Low to High
Lower City (The)
Lower Empire
Lower your Sail
Lowlanders of Attica
Lowndean Professor (Cambridge University)
Loy
Loyal
Loys [lo-is]
Luath
Lubber (A)
Lubber’s Hole
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Lubins
Lucasian Professor
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