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 Picts’ Houses.Picture Bible. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Picture.
 
A model, or beau-ideal, as, He is the picture of health; A perfect picture of a house. (Latin, pictra.)   1
   The Picture. Massinger has borrowed the plot of this play from Bandello of Piedmont, who wrote novelles or tales in the fifteenth century.   2
 


 Picts’ Houses.Picture Bible. 

 
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