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Rukenaw (Dame)

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The ape’s wife in the tale of Reynard the Fox. The word means noisy insolence.

 

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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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Rudolstadt (La Comtesse de)
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Rue
Rue
Rue
Ruffe
Ruffian Hall
Rufus (The Red)
Ruggiero
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Rule, Britannia
Rule Nisi
Rule of Thumb (The)
Rule of the Road (The)
Rule the Roost (To)
Rum
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Rumolt
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