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 StrawberryStreak of Silver (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Strawberry Preachers.
 
So Latimer called the non-resident country clergy, because they strayed from their parishes, to which they returned only once a year. (Anglo-Saxon, streowan, to stray.)   1
 


 StrawberryStreak of Silver (The). 

 
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