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The heroine of Longfellow’s poem so called. The subject of the tale is the expulsion of the inhabitants of Acaʹdia (Nova Scotia) from their homes by order of George II.
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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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