Delaware,

U.S. America, was granted by charter in 1701 to Lord De la Ware, who first explored the bay into which the river empties itself.

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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.

Defeat
Defender of the Faith
Deficit (Madame)
Degenerate
Dei Gratia
Dei Judicium (Latin)
Deianira
Deiphobus
Deities
Déjeuner à la Fourchette (French)
Delaware
Delectable Mountains (The)
Delf
Delia
Delias
Delight
Delirium
Della Cruscans or Della Cruscan School
Delmonico
Delos
Delphi or Delphos

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