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Since its first publication in 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has become one of the world's best-loved and most-browsed-through books. Where else can one find the meanings of - and the stories behind - so many terms and phrases drawn from mythology, literature, history, folk...

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Main Author: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper & Row, 1965.
Edition:Revised Edition.
Subjects:
English language > Phraseology > Dictionaries.
Fables > Dictionaries.
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