Lewis Baboon.

Louis XIV. of France is so called in Arbuthnot’s History of John Bull. Of course, there is a play upon the word Bourbon.

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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.

Levellers. (April, 1649.)
Levellers
Levellers (in Irish History)
Lever de Rideau
Leveret
Leviathan
Levites
Levitical
Lewd (Anglo-Saxon, leóde)
Lewis (Monk)
Lewis Baboon
Lewkner’s Lane
Lex non Scripta
Lex Talionis (Latin)
Leyden Jar or Phial
Leze Majesty
Li-Flambe
Lia-fail (of Ireland)
Liakura
Liar (The)
Libel