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Phœnix Park (Dublin)

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A corruption of the Gaelic Fion-uisc (fair water), so called from a spring at one time resorted to as a chalybeate spa.

 

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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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Phlegethon
Phlegra
Phlogiston
Phocensian Despair
Phocion
Phœbē
Phœbus
Phœnix
Phœnix Alley (London)
Phœnix Park (Dublin)
Phœnix Period
Phœnix Theatre
Phœnix Tree
Phooka or Pooka
Phorcos
Phormio
Phrygians
Phryne
Phylactery
Phyllis

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