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 Phœnix Alley (London).Phœnix Period 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Phœnix Park (Dublin).
 
A corruption of the Gaelic Fion-uisc (fair water), so called from a spring at one time resorted to as a chalybeate spa.   1
 


 Phœnix Alley (London).Phœnix Period 

 
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