- JUPITER CARLYLE
- a sobriquet given to the REV. ALEXANDER CARLYLE (q.v. CARLYLE, ALEXANDER), from his resemblance to the artist's conception of Jupiter, particularly in the head.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
JUPITER CARLYLE
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