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Picts

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The inhabitants of Albin, north-east of Scotland. The name is usually said to be the Latin picti (painted [or tattooed] with woad), but in the Irish chronicles the Picts are called Pictones, Pietores, Piccardaig, etc.

 

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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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Pick
Pick Straws (To)
Pick a Hole in his Coat (To)
Pickaninny
Pickelherringe
Pickers and Stealers
Pickle
Pickwick (Mr. Samuel)
Pickwickian
Picrochole
Picts
Picts Houses
Picture
Picture Bible
Picture Galleries
Pictures
Pie
Pie Corner (London)
Pie Poudre
Piebald
Pied de la Lettre (Au)

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Picts