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Pharaoh

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in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means Louis XIV. of France.

“If Pharaoh’s doubtful succour he [Charles II.] should use,

A foreign aid would more incense the Jews [English nation].”

 

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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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Pewter
Phædria [wantonness]
Phaeton
Phalanx
Phalaris
Phaleg
Phantom Ship
Phaon
Pharamond
Pharaoh
Pharaoh
Pharaoh who Knew not Joseph
Pharaoh who made Joseph his Viceroy
Pharaoh’s Chicken
Pharaoh’s Daughter
Pharian Fields
Pharisees
Pharos
Pharsalia
Pheasant
Phebe