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 Dola’bra.Doldrums (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dolce far Niente (Italian).
 
Delightful idleness. Pliny has “Jucundum tamen nihil agere” (Ep. viii. 9).   1
 


 Dola’bra.Doldrums (The). 

 
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