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Iolanthe
or The Peer and the Peri (Fairy)

GLOSSARY

There are many terms in the articles on Iolanthe which are Briticisms unfamiliar to Americans or which are used in music. In most cases there are links to definitions in various places from the articles themselves. Below is a list of these terms with links to the places where further information can be found.

Apple puffs
Arcadia
Bab Ballads
Banburys
Bands
Bar in Court
Bar of the House
Baring
Barrister
Bathing machine
Bay
Belgrave Square
Bombazine
Boroughs
Canaille
Chancellor (Lord Chancellor)
Chancery
Contralto
Coronet
Division
Dolce far niente
Earl
Equity draftsman
Festina lente
Fairy-ring
Flageolet
Four-wheeler
Greengrocer
Hoi Polloi
House of Commons
House of Lords
Irish tenantry
Lobby
Mountararat
Parliament
Patter Song
Peer
Penny ice
Peri
Pickford's
Plebs
Recitative
Rothchild
Salisbury Plain
Second-class carriage
Second reading
Seven Dials
Sloan Square and South Kensington
Solicitor
Swain
Taradiddle
Tarantara
Tolloller
Topsy-Turvy
Tories
Ward in Chancery
Westminster
Whigs
Woolsack

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Revised February 2007
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