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Mélusines (3 syl.)

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Gingerbread cakes bearing the impress of a beautiful woman “bien coiffée,” with a serpent’s tail; made by confectioners for the May fair in the neighbourhood of Lusignan, near Poitiers. The allusion is to the transformation of the fairy Melusiʹna every Saturday. (See above.)

 

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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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