Arras, a French town in the dep. of Pas-de-Calais, long celebrated for its tapestry; the birthplace of Damiens and Robespierre.
Population (circa 1900) given as 20,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Arran * Ar`riaArras in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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Baudouin, Francis
Beaufort, Henry
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Crispin, John
Ecluse, Charles
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