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Nell’s Point

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in Barry Island. Famous for a well to which women resort on Holy Thursday, and having washed their eyes with the water of the well, each woman drops into it a pin.

 

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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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Negro
Negro Offspring
Negroni
Negus
Nehallenia
Nehushtan (2 Kings xviii. 4)
Neiges dAntan (The)
Neken
Neksheb
Nell’s Point
Nem. Con
Nem. Diss
Nemean Games (The)
Nemean Lion (The)
Nemesis
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
Neology
Neoptolemos or Pyrrhos
Nepenthe
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