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To brand St. Catharine’s tresses. To live a virgin.
“Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catharine’s tresses” Longfellow Evangeline.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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