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 Lælaps.Læta’re Sunday. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Laer’tes (3 syl.).
 
Son of Polo’nius and brother of Ophelia. He kills Hamlet with a poisoned rapier, and dies himself from a wound by the same foil. (Shakespeare: Hamlet.)   1
 


 Lælaps.Læta’re Sunday. 

 
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