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Queen (The White)

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Mary Queen of Scots; so called because she dressed in white mourning for her French husband.

 

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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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Quarto
Quarto-Decimans
Quashee
Quasi (Latin)
Quasimodo
Quasimodo Sunday
Quassia
Quatorziennes (fourteeners)
Queen
Queen (The White)
Queen Anne is Dead
Queen Anne’s Bounty
Queen Anne’s Style (of architecture)
Queen Consort
Queen Dick
Queen Dowager
Queen Passion (The Great)
Queen Quintessence
Queen Regnant
Queen-Square Hermit