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* '''dirigible:''' blimps, airships; balloons that can be steered
 
* '''dirigible:''' blimps, airships; balloons that can be steered
  
* '''''Sl'' derry:''' 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)
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* '''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]]
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* '''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 10:44, 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)
  • Mrs Jellyby: a character in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House; an enthusiastic, unthinking philanthropist who forgets that charity should begin at home