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* '''dirigible:''' blimps, airships; balloons that can be steered | * '''dirigible:''' blimps, airships; balloons that can be steered | ||
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''derry:''' (''slang'') an eye-glass; an alarm; a hue-and-cry → the term is thought to be derived from ''Derry Down Triangle'', a nickname for Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, MP for County Down (1790), Irish Secretary (1797), Foreign Secretary (1812), 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1821) |
| − | * '''djellaba:''' an Arabic cloak with a hood and wide sleeves → 005.35 [[mecklenburk]] | + | * '''djellaba:''' an Arabic cloak with a hood and wide sleeves → [[Page_5|FW 005.35]] [[mecklenburk]] |
* '''Derry:''' city and county in Ulster → Matthew Gregory, the first of the [[Four Old Men]] (×), lives in Ulster | * '''Derry:''' city and county in Ulster → Matthew Gregory, the first of the [[Four Old Men]] (×), lives in Ulster | ||
Revision as of 11:44, 5 December 2006
- dirigible: blimps, airships; balloons that can be steered
- derry: (slang) an eye-glass; an alarm; a hue-and-cry → the term is thought to be derived from Derry Down Triangle, a nickname for Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, MP for County Down (1790), Irish Secretary (1797), Foreign Secretary (1812), 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1821)
- djellaba: an Arabic cloak with a hood and wide sleeves → FW 005.35 mecklenburk
- Derry: city and county in Ulster → Matthew Gregory, the first of the Four Old Men (×), lives in Ulster
- Mrs Jellyby: a character in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House; an enthusiastic, unthinking philanthropist who forgets that charity should begin at home
