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Tabla Rasa (Latin)

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A clean slate on which anything can be written.

“When a girl has been taught to keep her mind a tabla rasa till she comes to years of discretion, she will be more free to act on her own natural impulses.”—W. S. R.

 

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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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Syrtis
T
T.Y.C.
T-Rule (A)
Tab
Tabard
Tabardar
Tabarin
Tabby
Tabla Rasa (Latin)
Table
Table dHôte [the host’s table]
Table Money
Table-Turning
Tableaux Vivants (French, living pictures)
Tabooed
Taborites
Tabouret
Tabulæ Toletanæ
Tace