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Massʹamore (3 syl.) or Massy More

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The principal dungeon of a feudal castle. A Moorish word.

“Proximus est carcer subterraʹneus, sine ut Mauri appellant ‘Mazmorra.ʹ”—Old Latin Itinerary.

 

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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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Mashackering and Misguggling
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Mask a Fleet (To)
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Mass
Mass (The)
Massachusetts
Massacre of the Innocents
Massacre of the Innocents (The)
Massamore
Mast
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Master of Sentences
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Mastic
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