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Pleasure

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It was Xerxes who offered a reward to anyone who could invent a new pleasure.

 

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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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Platonic Love
Platonic Puritan (The)
Platonism
Platter with Two Eyes (A)
Play
Play the Deuce
Played Out
Playing to the Gods
Please the Pigs
Pleased as Punch
Pleasure
Plebeians
Plebiscite
Pledge
Pleiades
Plét
Pleydell (Mr. Paulus)
Pliable
Pliny
Pliny’s Doves
Plith