| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bessie Bell and Mary Gray | Literature | A ballad. The tale is that these two young ladies, natives of Perth, to avoid the plague of 1666, retired to a rural retreat called the Burnbraes, about a mile from Lynedock, the residence of Mary Gray. A young man, in love with both, carried them provisions. Both ladies died of the plague, and were buried at Dornock Hough. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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