/ · 1894 Brewer’s · T · Tabla Rasa (Latin)
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A clean slate on which anything can be written.
“When a girl has been taught to keep her mind a tabla rasa till she comes to years of discretion, she will be more free to act on her own natural impulses.”—W. S. R.
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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.