Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Aldebaran

The sun in Arabian mythology. In astronomy, the star called the Bull's eye in the constellation Taurus. (Arabic al the, debaran.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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