Friday, the young savage, the attendant of Robinson Crusoe, so called as discovered on a Friday.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Friar Tuck * FridayFriday in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Links here from Chalmers
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Aland, Sir John Fortescue
Atterbury, Francis
Bagshaw, Henry
Bentley, Richard
Berquin, Lewis De
Black, Joseph
Blackmore, Sir Richard
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