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Cupola

Small dome on top of a roof or other high structure.

Curate’s egg

English language idiom used in reference to something that is partly good and partly bad.

Customary Acre

Redirected to Cheshire acre.

Cymon and Iphigenia (painting)

Undated oil on canvas painting by the English artist Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton.

Damhouse

Grade II* listed building in Tyldesley but considered to be in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium, and, since restoration in 2000, houses offices, a clinic and tearooms.

Damps

Damps is a collective name given to all gases other than air found in coal mines in Great Britain. The chief pollutants are carbon dioxide and methane, known as blackdamp and firedamp respectively.

Dancing mania

Also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John’s Dance and St. Vitus’s Dance, a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.

David Gordon Steam Carriage

Three-wheeled vehicle driven by six steam-powered feet.

David Gregory

Scottish physician and inventor accused of witchcraft. He inherited Kinnairdy Castle in Banffshire.

Davyhulme Military Hospital

Redirected to Trafford General Hospital.