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Mell Supper

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Harvest supper; so called from the French meler (to mix together), because the master and servants sat promiscuously at the harvest board.

 

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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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Meleager
Melesigenes
Meletians
Meliadus (King)
Melibeus or Melibe
Melibœan Dye
Melicertes
Melior
Melisendra
Melissa (in Orlando Furioso)
Mell Supper
Mellifiuous Doctor (The)
Melon
Melons (French)
Melons
Melpomene
Melrose Abbey (Register of)
Melusina
Mélusines
Melyhalt (Lady)
Memento Mori (A)