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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Nesrem.
 
A statue some fifty cubits high, in the form of an old woman. It was hollow within for the sake of giving secret oracles. (Arabian mythology.)   1
 


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