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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Ordinary Stock. It is the Leeds line.
The Austrian Leeds. Brūnn, in Moravia, noted for its woollen cloth. So it was called in the palmy days of Austria.
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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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