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Parting Cup (A)

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was, by the ancient Romans, drunk in honour of Mercury to insure sound sleep. (See Ovid, Fasti, ii. 635.) (See Stirrup Cup.)

 

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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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Part
Partant pour la Syrie
Parthenia
Parthenopē
Parthenopean Republic
Parti (A)
Particular Baptists
Particularists
Parting
Parting Cup (A)
Partington
Partlet
Partridge
Partridge’s Day (St.)
Partula
Parturiunt Montes
Party
Party Spirit
Parvenu (French)
Parvis (London)