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True Blue

that is, “Coventry blue,” noted for its fast dye. An epithet applied to a person of inflexible honesty and fidelity.

 

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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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Trouveres
Trovatore (Il)
Trows
Troxartas [bread-eater]
Troy-Novant (London)
Troy-town
Troy Weight
Truce of God
Truces
Truchuela
True Blue
True-lovers Knot
True as Touch
True Thomas and the Queen of Elfiand
Truepenny
Trulli
Trump
Trump Card
Trumpet
Trumpeter
Trumpets (Feast of)

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