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Corn. Ceres was the Roman name of Mother-Earth, the protectress of agriculture and of all the fruits of the earth.
“Dark frowning heaths grow bright with Ceresʹ store.”
Thomson: Castle of Indolence, ii. 27.
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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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