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A volume of tales related in ten days (Greek, deka, hemʹera), as the Decameron of Boccacʹcio, which contains one hundred tales related in ten days.
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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.