Oliver

Oliver, a favourite paladin of Charlemagne's, who, along with Roland, rode by his side, and whose name, along with Roland's, has passed into the phrase, a “Roland for an Oliver,” meaning one good masterstroke for another, such as both these knights never failed to deliver.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Olivarez, Count d' * Olives, Mount of
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Oldcastle, Sir John
Oldenburg
Oldham
Oldys, William
Oléron
Olga, St.
Olifaunt, Nigel
Oliphant, Laurence
Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret
Olivarez, Count d'
Oliver
Olives, Mount of
Ollivier, Émile
Olmütz
Olympia
Olympiad
Olympias
Olympic Games
Olympus
Olney
Om

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Oliver in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Links here from Chalmers

Bacon, Francis
Battely, Dr. John
Baylis, William
Binning, Hugh
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Chastelain, George
Conant, Dr. John
Cowley, Abraham
Cromwell, Oliver
Cudworth, Ralph
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