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A religious sect founded by Jonadab, son of Rechab, who enjoined his family to abstain from wine and to dwell in tents, (Jer. xxxv. 6, 7.)
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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.