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A lady-love. Taken from Don Quixote’s amie du cœur. Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but the knight dubbed her Dulcinʹea del Toboʹso.
“I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head—it harmonises the soul.”—Sterne.
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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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