Skimmelk steed

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  • skim milk steed: a small statue of a white horse in the fanlight above the front door of HCE's tavern → many Protestants in Dublin displayed such as a symbol of their loyalty to the crown; the horse resembles the white horse supposedly ridden by William III at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690
  • melk: (Dutch) milk
  • skim milk: fatless milk from which the cream has been removed
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