Monumental Effigies
.In the age of chivalry the woman in monumental brasses and effigies is placed on the man’s right hand; but when chivalry declined she was placed on his left hand.
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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.