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Mud-hovels; the ancient name of Paris. The Romans call it Lutetia Parisiõrum, the mud-town of the Parisii. The former word being dropped, has left the present name Paris.
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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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