Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Delaware

U.S. America, was granted by charter in 1701 to Lord De la Ware, who first explored the bay into which the river empties itself.

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