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Scarborough Dress (A)

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in Molière’s time, was black from top to toe; hence he says, “Night has put on her ‘scaramouch dress.ʹ”

 

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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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Scandalum Magnatum [scandal of the magnates]
Scanderbeg
Scanderbeg’s Sword must have Scanderbeg’s Arm—i.e
Scandinavia
Scant-of-grace (A)
Scantling
Scapegoat
Scaphism
Scapin
Scaramouch
Scarborough Dress (A)
Scarborough Warning
Scarlet
Scarlet (Will)
Scarlet Coat
Scarlet Woman
Scavenger’s Daughter
Sceatta
Scene Painters
Scene Plot
Scent