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Norma

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A vestal priestess who has been seduced. She discovers her paramour in an attempt to seduce her friend, also a vestal priestess, and in despair contemplates the murder of her baseborn children. The libretto is a melodrama by Romani, music by Belliʹni (1831.) (Norma, an opera.)

 

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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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Non Sequitur (A)
Nonce
Nonconformists
Nones
Nonjurors
Nonne Prestes Tale
Nor
Norfolk
Norfolk-Howards
Norfolk Street (Strand)
Norma
Normandy
Norna
Norna of the Fitful Head
Nornir or Norns
Norrisian Professor
Norroy
Norte
North (Christopher)
North
North-east Passage (The)