/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Gate of Tears [Babelmandeb]
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The passage into the Red Sea. So called by the Arabs from the number of shipwrecks that took place there.
“Like some ill-destined bark that steers
In silence through the Gate of Tears.”
T. Moore: Fire Worshippers.
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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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