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 Mari’no Falie’ro.Maritor’nes (Spanish, bad woman). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Mariotte’s Law.
 
At a given temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely as the pressure. So called from Ed. Mariotte, a Frenchman, who died 1684.   1
 


 Mari’no Falie’ro.Maritor’nes (Spanish, bad woman). 

 
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