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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fib.
 
An attendant on Queen Mab in Drayton’s Nymphidia. Fib, meaning a falsehood, is the Latin fabula, a fable.   1
 


 Fiat.Fi’co. 

 
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