A negress of sparkling wit and great beauty, attending on the Princess of France, and loved by Lord Bironʹ, a nobleman in the suite of Ferdinand, King of Navarre. (Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost.)
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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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