/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · Welsh Rabbit
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Cheese melted and spread over buttered toast. The word rabbit is a corruption of rare-bit.
“The Welshman he loved toasted cheese,
Which made his month like a mouse-trap.”
When Good King Arthur Ruled the Land.
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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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