Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Hardcover

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

 
9780304340798: Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0304340790 ISBN 13: 9780304340798
Verlag: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

The first concise format edition of a classic reference work, this contains over 15,000 entries which give the meanings and origin of words, phrases and proper names not covered in conventional dictionaries. The majority of entries provide the history of phrases - from auld lang syne to ZIP code - an account of figures in myth and history - from Abdalla and Alberick to Zephyr and Zuleika - or outline 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. In addition the dictionary includes a miscellany of knowledge - lists of the traditional cries of animals, lists of dwarfs and giants in myth and history, of patron saints, of wedding anniversaries; a glossary of terms in heraldry and an account of how to play Nine Men's Morris.

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The first concise format edition of a classic reference work, this contains over 15,000 entries which give the meanings and origin of words, phrases and proper names not covered in conventional dictionaries. The majority of entries provide the history of phrases - from auld lang syne to ZIP code - an account of figures in myth and history - from Abdalla and Alberick to Zephyr and Zuleika - or outline 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. In addition the dictionary includes a miscellany of knowledge - lists of the traditional cries of animals, lists of dwarfs and giants in myth and history, of patron saints, of wedding anniversaries; a glossary of terms in heraldry and an account of how to play Nine Men's Morris.

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Verlag
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0304340790
ISBN 13 
9780304340798
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
1136
Herausgeber
Kirkpatrick E.M.
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