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Balfour

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Balfour surname of the Conservative statesman Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930).
Balfour Declaration a declaration in favour of a Jewish national home in Palestine, issued in 1917 by Balfour as Foreign Secretary.
Mr Balfour's poodle the House of Lords; from the title of a book (1954) by Roy Jenkins, and ultimately in allusion to a speech by Lloyd George of 1907, in which he described the House of Lords as the ‘poodle’ of Balfour as Prime Minister.

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Balfour

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Balfour A series in the New Zealand Upper Triassic, underlain by the Gore, overlain by the Herangi (Jurassic), and comprising the Oretian, Otamitan, Warepan, and Otapirian Stages.

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Balfour

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Balfour Orkn. (Shapinsay). ‘Farm with pasture’. Gaelic baile + pór.

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Balfour

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Balfour •chaffer, gaffer, Jaffa, kafir, Staffa •alfalfa, alpha, Balfour, Wadi Halfa •camphor, chamfer •Luftwaffe •laugher, staffer •heifer, zephyr •chafer, trefa, wafer •cockchafer •feoffor, reefer •differ, sniffer •pilfer • titfer • umbellifer • Jennifer •conifer • apocrypha • thurifer •crucifer, Lucifer •Potiphar • aquifer •cipher, encipher, fifer, Haifa, knifer, lifer •coffer, cougher, Offa, offer, proffer, quaffer, scoffer •golfer • phosphor • Forfar • Altdorfer •chauffeur, gofer, goffer, gopher, loafer, Nuku'alofa, Ophir, shofar, sofa •Fraunhofer •hoofer, loofah, opera buffa, roofer, spoofer, tufa, woofer •waterproofer •bluffer, buffer, duffer, puffer, snuffer, suffer •sulphur (US sulfur) • telegrapher •calligrapher, serigrapher •autobiographer, bibliographer, biographer, cartographer, choreographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, geographer, Hagiographa, hagiographer, iconographer, lexicographer, lithographer, oceanographer, palaeographer (US paleographer), photographer, pornographer, radiographer, stenographer, topographer, typographer •philosopher, theosopher •metaphor • Christopher • surfer •Bonhoeffer • windsurfer

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