Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Limp

Formed of the initial letters of Louis (XIV.), James, Mary, Prince (of Wales). A Jacobite toast in the time of William III. (See Notarica.)

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