/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Colemira
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A poetical name for a cook; being, of course, compounded of coal and mire.
“‘Could I,ʹ he cried, ‘express how bright a grace
Adorns thy morning hands and well-washed face,
Thou wouldst, Colemira, grant what I implore.
And yield me love, or wash thy face no more.ʹ”
Shenstone: Colemira, an Eclogue.
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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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