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A levée.
“Durbars which might rival in splendour of colour and jewelled bravery the glories of the court of Byzantium.”—McCarthy: England under Gladstone, chap. iv. p. 60.
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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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