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Rodhaver

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The lady-love of Zal, a Persian hero. Zal wanted to scale her bower, and Rodhaver let down her long tresses to assist him; but the lover managed to climb to his mistress by fixing his crook into a projecting beam. (Champion: Ferdosi.)

 

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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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Rococo Architecture
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Rod in Pickle (A)
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Roderick Random
Roderigo
Rodhaver
Rodilardus
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