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 Dim’issory.Di’nah (Aunt), 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dim’ity.
 
A cloth said to be so called from Damietta, in Egypt, but really from the Greek di-mitos (double-thread). (See SAMITE.)   1
 


 Dim’issory.Di’nah (Aunt), 

 
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