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Sand-blind

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Virtually blind, but not wholly so, what the French call ber-lue; our par-blind. (Old English suffix sam, half; or Old High German sand, virtually.) It is only fit for a Launcelot Gobbo to derive it from sand, a sort of earth.

“This is my true-begotten father, who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not.”—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.

 

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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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San Suena
Sance-bell
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Sancho Panza
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Sanctum Sanctorum
Sancy Diamond
Sand (George)
Sand
Sand-blind
Sand-man is about (The)
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Sandabar
Sandal
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Sandalwood
Sandbanks
Sandemanians or Glassites
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