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White Company (The)

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Le Blanche Compagnie.” A band of French cut-throats organised by Bertrand du Guesclin and led against Pedro the Cruel.

“Se faisoient appeller ‘La Blanche Compagnie,ʹ parce quʹils portoient tous une croix blanche sur lʹepaule, comme voulant témoigner quʹils nʹavoient pris les armes que pour abolir le Judaïsme en Espagne, et combattre le Prince qui le protégesit.”—Memoires Historiques.

 

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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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Whistle Down the Wind (To)
Whistle for the Wind
White
White Bird (The)
White Brethren or White-clad Brethren
White Caps
White Caps
White Caps (1891)
White-coat (A)
White Cockade
White Company (The)
White Czar (The)
White Elephant
White Feather
White Friars
White Harvest (A)
White Hat
White Horse
White Horses
White House
White Ladies [Les Dames Blanches]