Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rosetta

(Africa). The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves.

Now hangs listening to the doyes
In warm Rosetta.

T. Moore: Paradise and the Peri.

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