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Patrick’s Purgatory (St.)

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Ireland, described in the Italian romance called Guerino Meschino. Here gourmands are tantalised with delicious banquets which elude their grasp, and are at the same time troubled with colic. (See Tantalus.)

 

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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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Patina
Patmos (My)
Patois
Patri-Passians
Patrician
Patrick
Patrick’s Cave (St.)
Patrick’s Cross (St.)
Patrick’s Grave (St.)
Patrick’s Monument (St.)
Patrick’s Purgatory (St.)
Patrick and the Serpent (St.)
Patrico or Pater-cove
Patroclos
Patten
Pattens-Money (Chapins de la Reina)
Patter
Pattern
Pattieson (Mr. Peter)
Paul (St.)
Paul Pry