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Common Expressions: FAMILIAR SPIRITS

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Familiar SpiritsFamiliar Spirits is a memoir published in 2000 by American writer Alison Lurie. In it, she recounts a friendship with poet James Merrill and his life partner David Jackson which began in the 1950s. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: FAMILIAR SPIRITS

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Familiar SpiritsLiterature1: Spirit slaves. From the Latin, famulus (an attendant).
2: "Away with him! he has a familiar under his
3: Tongue." - Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iv. 7. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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