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 Queer Street.Querelle d’Allemand. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Quency.
 
A corruption of quintefeuil (five-leaved), the armorial device of the family.   1
 


 Queer Street.Querelle d’Allemand. 

 
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