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 Alp.Al’pha. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Alph.
 
A mythical “sacred river in Xanadu,” which ran “through caverns measureless to man.”—Coleridge: Kubla Khan.   1
 


 Alp.Al’pha. 

 
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