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 Dish-washer (A).Dismas (St.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dismal.
 
Daniel Finch, second earl of Nottingham.   1
        “No sooner was Dismal among the Whigs . . but Lady Char[lot]te is taken knitting in St. James’s Chapel [i.e. Lady Charlotte Finch, his daughter].”—Examiner, April 20–24th, 1713, No. 44.
 


 Dish-washer (A).Dismas (St.). 

 
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