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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996
pharos lighthouse. XVI. Appellative use of L.
Pharos — Gr.
Pháros name of an island off Alexandria on which stood a famous lighthouse.
© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.
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