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 Car’illons,Carle or Carling Sunday [Pea Sunday]. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cari’næ.
 
Women hired by the Romans to weep at funerals; so called from Caria, whence most of them came.   1
 


 Car’illons,Carle or Carling Sunday [Pea Sunday]. 

 
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