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Mansion

The Latin mansio was simply a tent pitched for soldiers on the march; and, hence a “day’s journey” (Pliny, xii. 14). Subsequently the word was applied to a roadside house for the accommodation of strangers. (Suetonius: Tit. 10).

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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.