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surnamed Ghil-shah (earth’s king). Son of Du’lavëd, founder of the city Balk, and first of the Kai-Omurs or Paishdad’ian dynasty of Persia (B.C. 940–920). (See Paisdadian.)
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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.