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Meaning of pérfida albión



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Manuel Penichet P

pérfida albión
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Perfidious Albion is named the poet and French diplomat of Aragonese origin Augustin Louis Marie de Ximenes to the British Islands or United Kingdom in hostile terms and revenge, encouraging to attack them in their own waters. Perfidious means unfair, traitor, that failure to his word. Albion is of Celtic origin, however, the Romans associated it with the term latin quot; quot; albus that means white, in reference to the color of the cliffs of Dover, to the South of England, that is it first that is sees approaching is to Britain by sea from the North of France.

  



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Oscar Herrera

Perfidious Albion: An expression that is used in poetry and rhetoric to refer to Great Britain by the selfish policy that, with more or less Foundation, is attributed to their Governments through the history of Nations.

  










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