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  • } { "params": { "1": { "label": "Proverb Keyword", "description": "One-word shorthand reference to proverb.", "example": "One of: crooked, turn, good, speak, lie, rebel, thaw, Barnsdale, stole, mile, pennyworths, tales, barn, drink, overshoot, robertsmen", "type": "string" } }, "description": "Used to resolve shorthand references to proverbs in the AllusionsItemTop template call on Allusion pages." }
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  • } { "params": { "1": { "label": "Proverb Keyword", "description": "Single word that resolves to a Robin Hood proverb.", "example": "One of: crooked, turn, good, speak, lie, rebel, thaw, Barnsdale, stole, mile, pennyworths, tales, barn, drink, overshoot, … } }, "description": "Resolves a one-word shorthand reference to a full Robin Hood proverb." }
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  • By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-12. Revised by … "Robin Hood" has occasionally been used as a common noun. It may mean a lie or tall tale or it may be used as a generic term for a rebel. Robin Hood = a lie Apparently "Robin Hood" has been used as a noun meaning "a daring lie". John S. Farmer notes in his edition of John Heywood's Dialogue that "[...] the story of Robin Hood ultimately grew so misty and traditional that the name became a generic byword for the marvellous that was not believable. Thus Robin Hood, subs. = a daring lie [...]". Heywood, John 1906a, p. 191. Unfortunately he … Dialogue. Brief mention ⁃ Heywood, John 1906a, p. 191. Robin Hood = a rebel During the 1590's, the name "Robin Hood" enjoyed a brief vogue as a synonym for a rebel, traitor, enemy or criminal in the English state correspondence that was occasioned by the so-called Tudor conquest of …
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  • } } } } } } } } {{#vardefine:QCentury|{{#ifeq:{{#expr: and and and {{#expr: { "params": { "Date": { "label": "Date", "description": "Use for four-digit year if date in page name is in different format (rarely the case).", "example": "1567", "type": "number" }, "DatePrefix": { "label": "DatePrefix", "description": "Anything that might go before the date.", "example": "Typically for: c. (two double apostrophes, not double quotation marks)", "type": "string" }, "DateSuffix": { "label": "DateSuffix", "description": "Anything that may come after the date.", "example": "Typical content:? (uncertain date), -1657 (following the year 1656)", "type": "string" }, "AuthorPrefix": { "label": "AuthorPrefix", "description": "Anything that may precede the author's name.", "example": "Typical value: [", "type": "string" }, "Author": { "label": "Author", "description": "Use to make author's name in info box different from that in page title.", "example": "Lawrence, David …
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