Brewers Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Brewer, Ebenezer C.

ISBN 10: 1859861008 / ISBN 13: 9781859861004

Editore: Helicon Publishing, Limited, 1995

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Titolo: Brewers Concise Dictionary of Phrase and ...

Casa editrice: Helicon Publishing, Limited

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Used; Very Good

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This concise format edition contains over 15,000 entries which give the meaning and origin of words, phrases and proper names not covered in conventional dictionaries. There is information on any topic from 'Auld lang syne" to "ZIP" code; or an account of figures in myth and history, from Abdalla and Alberick to Zephyr and Zuleika; or an outline of the significance of historic terms in religion, magic, philosophy, literature, geography, mathematics and the sciences; from "abracadabra", Albion and Avatar to Zen, zodiac and zombie. The dictionary also includes tables of animal cries, dwarfs and giants in myth, patron saints and wedding anniversaries. The original edition of this reference work was compiled by polymath, clergyman and scholar, Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer.

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