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Moscow

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So called from the river Moscowa, on which it is built.

The monarch of Moscow. A large bell weighing 193 tons, 21 feet high, and 21 feet in diameter.

[So-and-So] was my Moscow. The turning-point of my good fortune, leading to future shoals and misery. The reference is to Napoleon’s disastrous expedition, when his star hastened to its setting.

“Juan was my Moscow [the ruin of my reputation].”


Byron: Don Juan, xi. 56.

 

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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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Mortar-board
Mortars
Morte dArthur
Mortgage
Morther
Mortimer
Mortlake Tapestry
Mortstone
Morven
Mosaic Work
Moscow
Mosen (Spanish)
Moses Horns
Moses Rod
Moses Slow of Speech
Moses Primrose
Moslem or Moslemin
Mosse
Mosstrooper
Mote and Beam (Matt. vii. 3–5)
Moth

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