Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Marylebone

(London) is not a corruption of Marie la bonne, but “Mary on the bourne” or river, as Holborn is “Old Bourne.”

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