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Nasser

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The Arabian merchant whose fables are the delight of the Arabs. DʹHerbelot tells us that when Mahomet read to them the history of the Old Testament, they cried out with one voice that Nasser’s tales were the best; upon which Mahomet gave his malediction on Nasser, and all who read him.

 

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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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Narcissus (The)
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Narrow House or Home
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Narses
Narwhal
Naseby (Northamptonshire)
Nasi
Naso
Nasser
Nastrond [dead-man’s region]
Nathaniel (Sir)
Nation of Gentlemen
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